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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Milvus vs. Newts vs. SiteWhere vs. Tigris

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbmilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OpenNMS GroupSiteWhereTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20052019201420102022
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes
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 indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles
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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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