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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. Typesense vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. CouchDB vs. Typesense vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivityAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecouchdb.apache.orgtypesense.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabletypesense.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncAlibabaApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19842016200520152019
Current releasev20, April 20233.3.3, December 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optionalyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud Table StoreCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"TypesenseWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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