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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. H2 vs. Qdrant vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.h2database.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Exasol

Thomas Mueller

Qdrant

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

2005

2021

2000

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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