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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Qdrant vs. Quasardb vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
quasar.aiwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSqdrant.tech/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperSpotifyQdrantquasardbYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20142014202120092017
Current release3.14.1, January 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptRustC++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using LevelDByes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes
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Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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