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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Spatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2013201919842005
Current release2.4.4, May 20247.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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Alibaba Cloud PolarDBH2GISMilvusOracle RdbPostGIS
Specific characteristicsPolarDB, previously ApsaraDB for PolarDB, is a cloud-native relational database designed...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesWebinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosCreating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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RAG: 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 modelsSpecification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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