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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. DuckDB vs. H2 vs. Milvus vs. OceanBase

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSFull-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 searchesA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbduckdb.orgwww.h2database.commilvus.ioen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesduckdb.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mden.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperThomas MuellerOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group
Initial release20192018200520192010
Current release0.10, February 20242.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 20244.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Amazon DocumentDBDuckDBH2MilvusOceanBase
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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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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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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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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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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