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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

couchdb.apache.org

origodb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

origodb.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

FatCloud

Robert Friberg et al

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2005

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

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 DML and DDL statements

Via inetgration in SQL Server

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role based authorization

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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