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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Memcached vs. Milvus vs. searchxml vs. Solr

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerwww.memcached.orgmilvus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssolr.apache.org
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalinformationpartners gmbhApache Software Foundation
Initial release20172003201920152006
Current release1.6.25, March 20242.3.4, January 20241.09.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++, GoC++Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
WindowsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoVector, Numeric and Stringyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nononoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
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
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverJava plugins
Triggersnonononoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonomultiple readers, single writeroptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based access control and fine grained access rightsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes
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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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