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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGoogle'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 searchesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablemilvus.iowww.monetdb.orgwww.openpie.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iocloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GoogleMonetDB BVOpenPie
Initial release2015201520192004
Current release2.3.4, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC++, GoC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate 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 integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role based access control and fine grained access rightsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BigObjectGoogle Cloud BigtableMilvusMonetDBPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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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 modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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