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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. H2 vs. Hyprcubd vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Serverless Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comhyprcubd.com (offline)milvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerHyprcubd, Inc.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2007200520191984
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaGoC++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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GridGainH2HyprcubdMilvusOracle Rdb
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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