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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. TerminusDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVQdrantDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2010200420212018
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangCRustProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumbers, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationRole-based access control

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