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DBMS > H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. RavenDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storemilvus.iowww.pinecone.ioravendb.net
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerIBMPinecone Systems, IncHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20052017201920192010
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.02.3.4, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAuthorization levels configured per client per database
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H2IBM Db2 Event StoreMilvusPineconeRavenDB
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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