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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. Milvus vs. Quasardb

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial extension of H2A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.h2gis.orgmaxdb.sap.commilvus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperExasolCNRSSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997quasardb
Initial release20002013198420192009
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20242.3.4, January 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Java.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2yesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononowith Hadoop integration
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 dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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EXASOLH2GISMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMilvusQuasardb
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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