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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeoSpockManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2014201720122019
Current release2.0, September 20196.0, February 20237.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes 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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoSpockLokiJSManticore SearchPouchDBWeaviate
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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