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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

MonetDB BV

Qdrant

SAP

Initial release

2004

2021

2010

2023

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Collection-level replication

yes

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

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

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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