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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

qdrant.tech/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Qdrant

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2021

2013

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Key-based authentication

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