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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BoltDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Qdrant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embedded key-value store for Go.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.18
Rank#122  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#171  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.enterprisedb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.enterprisedb.com/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEnterpriseDBQdrantSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122013200520211992
Current release1.20.3, January 202314, December 202117, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++Go.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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