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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Trafodion

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA widely adopted in-memory data gridA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOracles in-memory data grid solutionTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value storeVector DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comhazelcast.commilvus.iowww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencetrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesHazelcastOracleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20002008201920072014
Current release15.5, September 20205.3.6, November 20232.3.4, January 202414.1, August 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++, GoJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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 metadatayes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infoEventsnoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoReplicated Mapyes, with selectable consistency levelyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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