DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Milvus vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

milvus.io

pouchdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Transwarp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2019

2012

2017

Current release

2.4.4, May 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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