DBMS > Derby vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

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	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.featurebase.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.featurebase.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

opensearch.org/docs/latest

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

Amazon Web Services

Qdrant

Initial release

1997

2017

2014

2021

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2022, May 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python

Go
Java
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

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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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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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