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DBMS > Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

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

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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 LuceneA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
solr.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperActian CorporationQdrantApache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2005202120062017
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 20249.6.0, April 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCRustJavaC
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)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 availableyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJava pluginsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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