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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. RRDtool vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. RRDtool vs. TerarkDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A 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 DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#124  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCNRSTobias OetikerByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201919992016
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringNumeric data onlyno
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2nonenone
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
none
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)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsnono
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H2GISMilvusRRDtoolTerarkDB
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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