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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Qdrant vs. RRDtool vs. SQLite

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitepostgis.netgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
oss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperQdrantTobias OetikerDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2005202119992000
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.8.0, 20223.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCRustC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, BooleanNumeric data onlyyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLCollection-level replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes infovia file-system locks
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLKey-based authenticationnono

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