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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. InfluxDB vs. PostgreSQL vs. Qdrant vs. XTDB

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Vector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.60
Rank#232  Overall
#106  Relational DBMS
Score21.78
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score674.32
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#314  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.postgresql.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.postgresql.org/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDoltHub IncPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerQdrantJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201820131989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20212019
Current release2.7.6, April 202416.4, August 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoCRustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releasenouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlypartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsCollection-level replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication
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