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DBMS > Milvus vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpaceTime 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 DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitemilvus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperMireoTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2019202020192016
Current release2.4.4, May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesno
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 indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyesyesno
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MilvusSpaceTimeTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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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 23,000 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 free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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