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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgphoenix.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEsgynWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142014200520152019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaErlangC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AlaSQLApache PhoenixCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"EsgynDBWeaviate
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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