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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Weaviate

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerEsgynFairCom CorporationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2005201519792019
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V12, November 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, JavaANSI C, C++Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes 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 indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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CouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"EsgynDBFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEWeaviate
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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