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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Oracle Coherence 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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Google

Oracle

Qdrant

Initial release

2005

2010

2007

2021

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via views

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP 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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Key-based authentication

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