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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. Solr

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
solr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperActian CorporationQdrantApache Software Foundation
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200520212006
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCRustJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authenticationyes

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