DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. OpenSearch vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Hypertable vs. Milvus vs. OpenSearch vs. Trafodion

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

hazelcast.com

milvus.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2009

2019

2021

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.3.4, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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