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System Properties Comparison Qdrant vs. Typesense vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#106	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#192	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	1.21
Rank	#164	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

typesense.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

typesense.org/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Qdrant

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2021

2015

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

yes

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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