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System Properties Comparison Qdrant vs. STSdb vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo vs. YugabyteDB

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NameQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computingHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.vertica.comyaacomo.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationvertica.com/­documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperQdrantSTS Soft SCOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardQ2WEB GmbHYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20212011200520092017
Current release4.0.8, September 201512.0.3, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersnono
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Implementation languageRustC#C++C and C++
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes, called Custom Alertsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioninghorizontal partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Source-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infoBi-directional Spark integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlKey-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
QdrantSTSdbVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™YaacomoYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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