DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. Milvus vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. Milvus vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS for high security requirements

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#89	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#174	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

linter.ru

milvus.io

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

relex.ru

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2010

1990

2019

2022

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes, based on authentication and database rules

More information provided by the system vendor

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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