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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GreptimeDB vs. Milvus

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegreptime.commilvus.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.greptime.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGoogleGreptime Inc.
Initial release201520222019
Current release2.3.4, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Simple rights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rights
More information provided by the system vendor
Google Cloud BigtableGreptimeDBMilvus
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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