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DBMS > Google Cloud Spanner vs. Milvus vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Milvus vs. Prometheus vs. searchxml vs. TigerGraph

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannermilvus.ioprometheus.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdprometheus.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperGoogleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20172019201520152017
Current release2.3.4, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, GoGoC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and StringNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 infoImport of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
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
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serveryes
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoby Federationyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role based access control and fine grained access rightsnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access control
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Google Cloud SpannerMilvusPrometheussearchxmlTigerGraph
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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