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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.68
Rank#231  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlwww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmilvus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardb
Initial release20162005201020192009
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBH2IBM CloudantMilvusQuasardb
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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