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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Milvus vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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 Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational 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.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmilvus.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGeoSpockTeradata8Kdata
Initial release2013201920052016
Current release2.0, September 20191.2.2, November 20182.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaC++, GoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes 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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packages
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
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GeoSpockKairosDBMilvusTeradata AsterToroDB
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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