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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Qdrant

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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 simplicityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Qdrant
Initial release2017201919842021
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMSDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and StringyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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 indexesnonoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.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
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luano
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsKey-based authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
IRONdbMilvusOracle RdbQdrant
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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