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DBMS > HBase vs. Milvus vs. PostGIS vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Milvus vs. PostGIS vs. RRDtool

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLIndustry 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.
Primary database modelWide column storeVector DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgmilvus.iopostgis.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdpostgis.net/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTobias Oetiker
Initial release2008201920051999
Current release2.3.4, January 20212.3.4, January 20243.4.2, February 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROVector, Numeric and StringyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRole based access control and fine grained access rightsyes infobased on PostgreSQLno
More information provided by the system vendor
HBaseMilvusPostGISRRDtool
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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