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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Weaviate

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Chris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20042006201220102019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonPythonJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnoyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GBaseGraphiteHiveIBM CloudantWeaviate
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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