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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. KeyDB vs. Milvus vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

Primary database model

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#232	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

milvus.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.keydb.dev

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Google

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2010

2019

1984

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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)

simple password-based access control and ACL

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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