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DBMS > GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Weaviate

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NameGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.MicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20072010201520122019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.13.3 July 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenooptimistic lockingno
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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