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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA

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Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Well established RDBMS

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

hazelcast.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

milvus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Esgyn

Hazelcast

Actian Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2015

2008

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2019

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

11.2, May 2022

2.3.4, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Replicated Map

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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