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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeVector DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesmilvus.iosolr.apache.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132012201920062009
Current release2.3.4, January 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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 indexesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonoJava pluginsno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingnooptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyesno
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H2GISMicrosoft Azure Table StorageMilvusSolrTinkerGraph
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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