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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Milvus

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.esgyn.cnwww.h2database.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismilvus.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperSoftmotionsEsgynThomas MuellerInterSystems
Initial release20122015200520182019
Current release2.2.220, July 20232023.3, June 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, JavaJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyesVector, 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes, 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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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EJDBEsgynDBH2InterSystems IRISMilvus
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Milvus 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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