DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Pinot vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. Qdrant

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

alasql.org

pinot.apache.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Thomas Mueller

Spotify

Qdrant

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2014

2021

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Go
Java
Python

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

HarperDB - How and Why We Built It From The Ground Up on NodeJS
28 February 2021, hackernoon.com

Multi faceted data exploration in the browser using Leaflet and amCharts
3 May 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Build a real-time analytics solution with Apache Pinot on AWS
6 August 2024, AWS Blog

Open source Apache Pinot advances as StarTree boosts real-time analytics and observability
8 May 2024, VentureBeat

StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform
8 May 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Pinot for Low-Latency Offline Table Analytics
29 August 2024, Uber

StarTree Finds Apache Pinot the Right Vintage for IT Observability
8 May 2024, Datanami

provided by Google News

Qdrant review: A highly flexible option for vector search
29 July 2024, InfoWorld

Vector database company Qdrant wants RAG to be more cost-effective
2 July 2024, VentureBeat

Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M
23 January 2024, TechCrunch

Qdrant Announces an Industry-First Hybrid Cloud Offering For Enterprise AI Applications
16 April 2024, businesswire.com

Qdrant unveils hybrid vector algorithm for improved RAG
2 July 2024, Blocks & Files

provided by Google News

Share this page