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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storekairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGeoSpockIBM8Kdata
Initial release2017201320192016
Current release2.0, September 20192.01.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC and C++JavaC++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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GeoSpockIBM Db2 Event StoreKairosDBMilvusToroDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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