DBMS > IBM Db2 vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. openGauss vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Milvus vs. NuoDB vs. openGauss vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

milvus.io

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

doc.nuodb.com

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

IBM

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Huawei and openGauss community

Oracle

Initial release

1983

host version

2019

2013

2019

1980

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.3.4, January 2024

3.0, March 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus

Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

C++

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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