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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PieCloudDB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.openpie.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenPie

Qdrant

Initial release

2010

2021

Current release

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Collection-level replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Key-based authentication

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Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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