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DBMS > EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM vs. Qdrant vs. SpatiaLite

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperExasolIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQdrantAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20002010199320212008
Current release3.4-125.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangRustC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelKey-based authenticationno

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