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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Qdrant
Initial release20132019198420052021
Current release2.4.4, May 20247.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP Open VMSDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authentication
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H2GISMilvusOracle RdbPostGISQdrant
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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