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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. Newts vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Time Series DBMS and big data platformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitemilvus.ioopennms.github.io/­newtswww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupMireoTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20192014202020192016
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyesno
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 indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnononoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraFixed-grid hypercubesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoyesyesno
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MilvusNewtsSpaceTimeTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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