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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. IRONdb vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  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.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is 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 scaleA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedkairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGeoSpockCirconus LLC.8Kdata
Initial release2017201320192016
Current release2.0, September 2019V0.10.20, January 20181.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen 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 systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesVector, 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)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luanono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable 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 ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual 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 datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenosimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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GeoSpockIRONdbKairosDBMilvusToroDB
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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