DBMS > Aerospike vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.51
Rank	#60	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#6	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Qdrant

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

1993

2021

2010

2008

Current release

7.0, November 2023

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

with Enterprise Edition only

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

yes

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

Aerospike, AWS, Google, Glean, and other Industry Leaders Speaking at Real-time Data Summit 2024
5 June 2024

Aerospike a Winner in 2024 Business Sustainability Awards
22 May 2024

New Aerospike Release Lets Enterprises Consolidate Expensive Legacy Cache And Database Platforms
15 May 2024

Aerospike Recognized by Independent Research Firm Among Notable Vendors in Vector Databases Report
7 May 2024

Aerospike Closes $109M in Growth Capital from Sumeru Equity Partners
4 April 2024

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