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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Milvus vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmilvus.ioobjectbox.iorethinkdb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.objectbox.iorethinkdb.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperChris DavisObjectBox LimitedThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Wakanda SAS
Initial release20062019201720092012
Current release2.3.4, January 20242.4.1, August 20202.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, GoC and C++C++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
TriggersnononoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes
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GraphiteMilvusObjectBoxRethinkDBWakandaDB
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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