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DBMS > Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Milvus vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmemgraph.commilvus.iowww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmemgraph.com/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSpotifyMemgraph LtdPinecone Systems, IncSybase, SAP
Initial release20142017201920191993
Current release2.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and StringString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonDelphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
HeroicMemgraphMilvusPineconeSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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RAG: 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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