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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. OpenEdge vs. Qdrant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.progress.com/­openedgegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyProgress Software CorporationQdrant
Initial release20142008201419842021
Current release7.2.4, September 2012OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaRust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers and groupsKey-based authentication

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