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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MarkLogic vs. RethinkDB vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Document storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.progress.com/­marklogicrethinkdb.comwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.teradata.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MarkLogic Corp.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017TeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102001200919842019
Current release11.0, December 20222.4.1, August 2020Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes 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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL92noyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.noyes, with Range Indexesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI 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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