DBMS > Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Milvus vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

milvus.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Actian Corporation

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2019

1984

2010

Current release

12.0, July 2024

2.4.4, May 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and groups

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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