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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyKineticaPinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release20082014201220192021
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, BooleanNumbers, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelKey-based authentication

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