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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. Realm

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
realm.io
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesqdrant.tech/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVApache Software FoundationQdrantRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2004201220212014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumbers, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Collection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKey-based authenticationyes

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