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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Milvus vs. ToroDB vs. TypeDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.ToroDB 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 MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/milvus.iogithub.com/­torodb/­servertypedb.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdtypedb.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCirconus LLC.8KdataVaticleWakanda SAS
Initial release20172019201620162012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.3.4, January 20242.26.3, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoJavaJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsVector, Numeric and Stringyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyesyes
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 indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanonoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressyes
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IRONdbMilvusToroDBTypeDB infoformerly named GraknWakandaDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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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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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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