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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. DuckDB vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. Qdrant

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgduckdb.orggreenplum.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlduckdb.org/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerQdrant
Initial release20142018200520052021
Current release0.10, February 20247.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open 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)server-lessLinuxAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication

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