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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. LokiJS vs. PieCloudDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogreenplum.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.openpie.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.OpenPieWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015200520142019
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.1, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaScriptJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectGreenplumLokiJSPieCloudDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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All 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 modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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