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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. WakandaDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmilvus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCirconus LLC.informationpartners gmbhWakanda SAS
Initial release20172014201920152012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.4.4, May 20241.02.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++, GoC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneBounded 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 datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
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IRONdbLokiJSMilvussearchxmlWakandaDB
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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