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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverA 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 searchesA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iosurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsCirconus LLC.SurrealDB LtdSimer Plaha
Initial release19972017201920222018
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020V0.10.20, January 20182.4.4, May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoRustScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
More information provided by the system vendor
InterSystems CachéIRONdbMilvusSurrealDBSwayDB
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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