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System Properties Comparison PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. Solr vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate

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NamePouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRDF storeSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comrdf4j.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.teradata.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationTeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122004200619842019
Current release7.1.1, June 20199.6.1, May 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes 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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes 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 SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesJava pluginsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneShardingSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedoptimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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PouchDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSolrTeradataWeaviate
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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