DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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

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Name

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

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Hazelcast

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2019

2007

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Live Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes, with selectable consistency 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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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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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