DBMS > EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. LMDB vs. Milvus vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. LMDB vs. Milvus vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#118	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

milvus.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.lmdb.tech/doc

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Esgyn

CNRS

Symas

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2015

2013

2011

2019

2006

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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