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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationMireoWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20092015201220202019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.67.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java, .NetJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes 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 indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infovia viewsnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoyesAPI 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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