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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.50
Rank#99  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.23
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#80  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rocksdb.org
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantqdrant.tech/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QdrantFacebook, Inc.
Initial release201020212013
Current release9.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangRustC++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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 indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseKey-based authenticationno

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