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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

FairCom Corporation

Microsoft

Qdrant

Initial release

2005

1979

2014

2021

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

ANSI C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

JSON types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

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