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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.05
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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.gbase.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

Qdrant

Initial release

2015

2004

2021

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Key-based authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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