DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

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

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.tigergraph.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.tigergraph.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

2014

2017

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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

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Market metrics

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