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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Milvus vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgmilvus.iorockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSRocksetinformationpartners gmbhVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20132019201920152018
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.0v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringdynamic 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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSynchronous 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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonomultiple readers, single writerno
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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H2GISMilvusRocksetsearchxmlVictoriaMetrics
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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