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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. Milvus vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTime 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.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented 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
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmilvus.iowww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifyPerconaSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20002014201920152013
Current release15.5, September 20202.3.4, January 20243.4.10-2.10, November 20178.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++, GoC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
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 metadatanononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnononoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJavaScriptyes
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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GigaSpacesHeroicMilvusPercona Server for MongoDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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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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