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System Properties Comparison Couchbase vs. jBASE vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Primary database model

Document store
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	15.05
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#147	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.58
Rank	#137	Overall
	#11	Vector DBMS

Website

www.couchbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.couchbase.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2011

1991

2019

Current release

Server: 7.6, March 2024; Mobile: 3.3, August 2024; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), September 2024

5.7

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
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

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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