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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Qdrant vs. SwayDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QdrantSimer Plaha
Initial release201020212018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangRustScala
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
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
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleAtomic execution of operations
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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