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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.compouchdb.com/­guidesqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaApache Software FoundationQdrant
Initial release20182016201220122021
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20225.10, January 20227.1, August 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC, C++JavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoNumbers, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Collection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoKey-based authentication

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