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DBMS > H2 vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus vs. Qdrant

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.pinecone.ioprometheus.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperThomas MuellerPinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release2005201920152021
Current release2.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, BooleanNumeric data onlyNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaPython.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoby FederationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKey-based authentication

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