DBMS > Axibase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

pouchdb.com/guides

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Machbase

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

2014

2012

2019

Current release

15585

V8.0, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

JSON types

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

via views

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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