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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingSpatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iowww.monetdb.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCNRSMonetDB BVThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20162013201920042009
Current release2.3.4, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes infobased on H2noyes, in SQL, C, R
TriggersnoyesnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeH2GISMilvusMonetDBRethinkDB
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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