DBMS > Altibase vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Altibase

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Qdrant

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1999

1993

2021

2010

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

yes

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