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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Firestore vs. Milvus vs. PieCloudDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.63
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#271  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoremilvus.iowww.openpie.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoremilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGoogleOpenPie
Initial release20172019
Current release2.4.4, May 20242.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Role based access control and fine grained access rightsUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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Google Cloud FirestoreMilvusPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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