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DBMS > 4D vs. Geode vs. LevelDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Geode vs. LevelDB vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgeode.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1984200220112019
Current releasev20, April 20231.1, February 20171.23, February 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes 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 indexesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language (OQL)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights per client and object definablenoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGeodeLevelDBWeaviate
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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