DBMS > CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb vs. OpenMLDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IRONdb vs. OpenMLDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

openmldb.ai

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Google

Circonus LLC.

4 Paradigm Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2005

2010

2017

2020

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

2024-2 February 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

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

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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