DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

pouchdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

pouchdb.com/guides

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Esgyn

Google

InterSystems

Apache Software Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2010

2018

2012

2019

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

C++, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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