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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseMonetDB BVQdrantTobias Oetiker
Initial release1999200420211999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CRustC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, BooleanNumeric data only
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationno

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