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System Properties Comparison InterSystems IRIS vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

milvus.io

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

InterSystems

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2018

2019

2004

1995

1993

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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