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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant

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NameDrizzle  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.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
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Score3.57
Rank#74  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release200820192021
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC++Rust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPKey-based authentication

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