DBMS > BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. Milvus vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. LevelDB vs. Milvus vs. RavenDB

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Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/google/leveldb

milvus.io

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2015

2010

2011

2019

2010

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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