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System Properties Comparison Ignite vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.ioswaydb.simer.auwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.Simer PlahaWakanda SAS
Initial release20152017201920182012
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.6V0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java, .NetC and C++C++, GoScalaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringnoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in Luanonoyes
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
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.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoyes
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IgniteIRONdbMilvusSwayDBWakandaDB
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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