DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

milvus.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Rockset

Initial release

2010

2017

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

Vector, Numeric and String

dynamic typing

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.

Can index from XML

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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