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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Kingbase vs. Linter vs. MySQL vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

relex.ru

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Qdrant

Initial release

2013

1999

1990

1995

2021

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

V8.0, August 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Key-based authentication

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