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System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.postgres-xl.org

pouchdb.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Qdrant

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2021

2011

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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