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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Qdrant vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

origodb.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

doc.nuodb.com

origodb.com/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Qdrant

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2021

2010

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C++

Rust

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role based authorization

Key-based authentication

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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