DBMS > Couchbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	2.98
Rank	#91	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#14	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

pouchdb.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

pouchdb.com/guides

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

InterSystems

Apache Software Foundation

Qdrant

Initial release

2011

2018

2012

2021

2009

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2023.3, June 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

JavaScript

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

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

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Collection-level replication

none

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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

yes

Key-based authentication

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