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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NuoDB vs. openGemini vs. Qdrant

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#361  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aidoc.nuodb.comdocs.opengemini.org/­guideqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Huawei and openGemini communityQdrant
Initial release19972016201320222021
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20235.10, January 20221.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC++GoRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, StringNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robindata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByesCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAdministrators and common users accountsKey-based authentication

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