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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Milvus vs. TerarkDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA 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 DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.71
Rank#64  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchmilvus.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201520192016
Current releaseV12.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesyesschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2yes infousing Azure authenticationRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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H2GISMicrosoft Azure AI SearchMilvusTerarkDB
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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