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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Qdrant vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Qdrant vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
velocitydb.comyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperElasticQdrantVelocityDB IncYanza
Initial release2010202120112015
Current release8.6, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaRustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Any that supports .NETWindows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesno
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 indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NetHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Netany language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlKey-based authenticationBased on Windows Authenticationno

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