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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. OpenQM vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HugeGraph vs. Milvus vs. OpenQM vs. TerarkDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
milvus.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehugegraph.apache.org/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCNRSBaiduRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132018201919932016
Current release0.92.4.4, May 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaGroovy
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno
More information provided by the system vendor
H2GISHugeGraphMilvusOpenQM infoalso called QMTerarkDB
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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