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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orgmilvus.iowww.progress.com/­openedgeprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20002014201919842015
Current release15.5, September 20202.3.4, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++, GoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, 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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
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.yesnoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and groupsno
More information provided by the system vendor
GigaSpacesHawkular MetricsMilvusOpenEdgePrometheus
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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