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DBMS > PostgreSQL vs. Qdrant vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison PostgreSQL vs. Qdrant vs. Riak TS

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NamePostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score666.37
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#126  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.org/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerQdrantOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20212015
Current release16.4, August 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCRustErlang
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Erlang
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodespartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsCollection-level replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationno

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