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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. Spark SQL vs. Weaviate

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbhApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102012201520142019
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.1.1, June 20191.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, JavascriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application servernono
TriggersHooksyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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OrientDBPouchDBsearchxmlSpark SQLWeaviate
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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