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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. PouchDB vs. TempoIQ vs. Tibero vs. Weaviate

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

pouchdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

pouchdb.com/guides

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

TempoIQ

TmaxSoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2005

2012

2003

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

6, April 2015

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

planned for next version

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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