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System Properties Comparison Milvus vs. OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#352  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitemilvus.ioopentsdb.netrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4wakanda.github.io
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCWakanda SAS
Initial release20192011201420112012
Current release2.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 20152.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoJavaC#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnoyesnoyes
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MilvusOpenTSDBRealmSTSdbWakandaDB
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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