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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. jBASE vs. Milvus

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.69
Rank#101  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#89  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasemilvus.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9milvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperGoogleSpotifyActian CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release201720141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s19912019
Current release12.0, July 20245.72.4.4, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalVector, 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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yesIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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Google Cloud SpannerHeroicIngresjBASEMilvus
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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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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