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

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

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

qdrant.tech/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Qdrant

SiteWhere

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

1993

2021

2010

2008

Current release

3.4-12

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Collection-level replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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