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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
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Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Qdrant

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2021

2020

1987

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Rust

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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