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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. jBASE vs. Qdrant vs. VelocityDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
velocitydb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9qdrant.tech/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)QdrantVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122012199120212011
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.77.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageRustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalNumbers, 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.Net
Supported programming languagesC++Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 sourceyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelKey-based authenticationBased on Windows Authentication

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