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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Qdrant vs. YugabyteDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBWidely used in-process key-value storeA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleQdrantYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2010199420212017
Current release18.1.40, May 20202.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)RustC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumbers, 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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationCollection-level replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoKey-based authenticationyes
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IBM CloudantOracle Berkeley DBQdrantYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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