DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

velocitydb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VelocityDB Inc

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

2012

2000

2011

2019

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

7.x

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Server operating systems

hosted

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

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Based on Windows Authentication

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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