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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB vs. Qdrant

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.ioqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMQdrant
Initial release2010201420132021
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlKey-based authentication

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