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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. Qdrant vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. Qdrant vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aiqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.QdrantOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlex Kashirin
Initial release2016202120092020
Current release5.10, January 20223.2.0, December 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDARustErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationCollection-level replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationyes, using Riak Security

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