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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. MaxDB vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2014

2012

1984

2019

1984

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.1.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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