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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. QuestDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
questdb.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVQdrantQuestDB Technology IncAlex Kashirin
Initial release2004202120142020
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRustJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication
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