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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20102009200919982019
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++ErlangGo
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binarynoyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoErlangPL/SQLno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Securityfine 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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