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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Qdrant

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.objectbox.ioqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAlibabaMonetDB BVObjectBox LimitedQdrant
Initial release200420172021
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++Rust
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesNumbers, 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary native APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesKey-based authentication
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