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

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  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 BigDataData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsJavaScript 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 DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financemachbase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmspouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationMachbaseIBMApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132013200020122019
Current release15585V8.0, August 20237.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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.nononono
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 languageyesnoGraphQL 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
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
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 factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
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 tableyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMPouchDBWeaviate
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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