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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. RisingWave vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. RisingWave vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS and big data platformA 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 DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iowww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCNRSRisingWave LabsTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20132019202220192016
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.2, September 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoRustCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringStandard SQL-types and JSONyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noUDFs in Python or Javanono
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesnone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 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 H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and Rolesyesno
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H2GISMilvusRisingWaveTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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