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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Ingres vs. JanusGraph vs. Milvus vs. SingleStore

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridWell established RDBMSA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesMySQL 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 modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresjanusgraph.orgmilvus.iowww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.janusgraph.orgmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperHazelcastActian CorporationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720192013
Current release5.3.6, November 202311.2, May 20220.6.3, February 20232.3.4, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++, GoC++, Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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 infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesyesnoyes
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapIngres ReplicatoryesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes 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
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole based access control and fine grained access rightsFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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