DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Milvus vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2 vs. Milvus vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

milvus.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Thomas Mueller

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2010

2005

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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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

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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