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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Informix vs. Milvus vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBVector DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixmilvus.ioopentsdb.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
milvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20061984201920112009
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20202.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and JavaC++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesVector, Numeric and Stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnono
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GraphiteInformixMilvusOpenTSDBTinkerGraph
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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