DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. OrientDB vs. Qdrant vs. Stardog vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. OrientDB vs. Qdrant vs. Stardog vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

orientdb.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.stardog.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.stardog.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Qdrant

Stardog-Union

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2010

2021

2010

2018

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, Javascript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Key-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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