DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Qdrant

Initial release

2015

2014

1989

2021

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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