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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#52	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#56	Key-value stores
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.monetdb.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Arcade Data

MonetDB BV

Qdrant

Initial release

2021

2004

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2021

Current release

September 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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