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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. TDengine

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesKey-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score2.97
Rank#92  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtablemilvus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleinformationpartners gmbhTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20162015201920152019
Current release2.4.4, May 20241.03.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, GoC++C
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role based access control and fine grained access rightsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeGoogle Cloud BigtableMilvussearchxmlTDengine
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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