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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeSpatial extension of SQLiteAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.singlestore.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.singlestore.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSingleStore Inc.Alessandro FurieriWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20101993201320082019
Current release3.4-128.5, January 20245.0.0, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++, GoC++Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infohash partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual 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 possibleACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoAPI Keys
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IBM CloudantOpenQM infoalso called QMSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSpatiaLiteWeaviate
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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