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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

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

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Huawei and openGauss community

Qdrant

Initial release

2016

2019

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2021

Current release

5.10, January 2022

3.0, March 2022

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Collection-level 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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