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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegeospock.comhbase.apache.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDataStaxGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2011200820122019
Current release6.8, April 20202.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes 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, categoricalnoyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes 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.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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