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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Machbase Neo vs. MarkLogic vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document storeVector DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financemachbase.comwww.marklogic.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.marklogic.compouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMachbaseMarkLogic Corp.Apache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132013200120122019
Current release15585V8.0, August 202311.0, December 20227.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesnoyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes, with Range Indexesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxMarkLogicPouchDBWeaviate
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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