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DBMS > Milvus vs. openGauss vs. PostGIS vs. RRDtool

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

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NameMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSpatial 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 modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitemilvus.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
postgis.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
postgis.net/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperHuawei and openGauss communityTobias Oetiker
Initial release2019201920051999
Current release2.3.4, January 20243.0, March 20223.4.2, February 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoC, C++, JavaCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateVector, Numeric and StringyesyesNumeric 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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL 2011yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
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 proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLno
More information provided by the system vendor
MilvusopenGaussPostGISRRDtool
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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