DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

www.monetdb.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

MonetDB BV

Qdrant

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2004

2021

2022

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Collection-level replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Key-based authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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