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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. H2 vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Qdrant

Initial release

2018

2005

2021

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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Recent citations in the news

DuckDB: The tiny but powerful analytics database
15 May 2024, InfoWorld

DuckDB Walks to the Beat of Its Own Analytics Drum
5 March 2024, Datanami

Enabling Remote Query Execution through DuckDB Extensions
12 March 2024, InfoQ.com

My First Billion (of Rows) in DuckDB | by João Pedro | May, 2024
1 May 2024, Towards Data Science

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Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M
23 January 2024, TechCrunch

Qdrant offers managed vector database for hybrid clouds
16 April 2024, InfoWorld

Qdrant Announces an Industry-First Hybrid Cloud Offering For Enterprise AI Applications
16 April 2024, Business Wire

Qdrant Hybrid Cloud is Now Available for OCI Customers: Managed Vector Search Engine for Data-Sensitive AI ...
16 April 2024, blogs.oracle.com

Qdrant launches first vector database as a managed hybrid cloud
16 April 2024, VentureBeat

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