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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Weaviate

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014KineticaMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182010201220142019
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20227.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC, C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoJSON typesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DolphinDBIBM CloudantKineticaMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBWeaviate
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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