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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

1984

2021

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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