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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCloudflareIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182010201820182019
Current release2023.3, June 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Cloudflare Workers KVIBM CloudantInterSystems IRISSwayDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Weaviate 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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