DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Elastic

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Qdrant

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

1993

2021

2010

2008

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate 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

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

yes

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