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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Geode vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Weaviate

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgeode.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apigeode.apache.org/­docsdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCloudflareOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20182002201320052019
Current release1.1, February 20173.4.2, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Cloudflare Workers KVGeodeNuoDBPostGISWeaviate
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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