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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. FileMaker vs. Heroic vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmilvus.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperFatCloudClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSpotifyPercona
Initial release20121983201420192015
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaC++, GoC++
Server operating systemsWindowsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infovia pluginsnonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#PHPC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesnonoJavaScript
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and roles
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FatDBFileMakerHeroicMilvusPercona Server for MongoDB
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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