DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

qdrant.tech/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

IBM

InterSystems

Qdrant

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

2018

2021

2013

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

.NET

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

Key-based authentication

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