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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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 searchesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlswaydb.simer.autrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Hughes TechnologiesSimer PlahaApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172019199420182014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20244.4, October 20212.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoCScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyesnoyes
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in LuanononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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IRONdbMilvusmSQL infoMini SQLSwayDBTrafodion
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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