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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
geospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationGeoSpockApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2008201420122019
Current release11.0, January 20212.0, September 20197.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJava, JavascriptJavaScriptJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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CubridGeoSpockLokiJSPouchDBWeaviate
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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