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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Milvus vs. SpaceTime

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA multi-model DBMS and application serverA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemilvus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.intersystems.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.InterSystemsMireo
Initial release2002199720192020
Current release4.02018.1.4, May 20202.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnono
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes
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InfinityDBInterSystems CachéMilvusSpaceTime
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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