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

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 matchingSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVApache Software FoundationQdrantAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2004201220212008
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.1.1, June 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptRustC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
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 extensionsnonoyes
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes
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 consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKey-based authenticationno

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