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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. STSdb

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.geomesa.orgmilvus.iowww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCCRi and othersProgress Software CorporationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20052014201919842011
Current release14, December 20215.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++, GoC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangedepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and groupsno
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EDB PostgresGeoMesaMilvusOpenEdgeSTSdb
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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