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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. eXtremeDB vs. H2 vs. Milvus vs. SwayDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringFull-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 searchesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.mcobject.comwww.h2database.commilvus.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperExasolMcObjectThomas MuellerSimer Plaha
Initial release20002001200520192018
Current release8.2, 20212.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++, GoScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.nono infosupport of XML interfaces availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning / shardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
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 integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes, 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.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLeXtremeDBH2MilvusSwayDB
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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