DBMS > Qdrant vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Qdrant vs. RocksDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Qdrant

Facebook, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2021

2013

1994

2016

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Collection-level replication

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

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

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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