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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Serverless Time Series DBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

hyprcubd.com (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

2017

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (https)

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

token access

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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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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