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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. searchxml

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.99
Rank#195  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.h2database.commilvus.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddoc.nuodb.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperThomas MuellerDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release2005201920132015
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoJava, SQLyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rightsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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H2MilvusNuoDBsearchxml
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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