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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. DuckDB vs. H2GIS vs. Milvus

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comduckdb.orgwww.h2gis.orgmilvus.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comduckdb.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBCNRS
Initial release2012201820132019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20211.0.0, June 20242.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++JavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)noneyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noyes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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BangdbDuckDBH2GISMilvus
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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