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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

IBM

Qdrant

informationpartners gmbh

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1983

host version

2021

2015

2008

Current release

12.1, October 2016

1.0

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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 C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Collection-level replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

Key-based authentication

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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