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DBMS > 4D vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen vs. TypeDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. KairosDB vs. TimesTen vs. TypeDB vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltypedb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comkairosdb.github.iodocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1typedb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005VaticleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19842013199820162019
Current releasev20, April 20231.2.2, November 201811 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.26.3, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPL/SQLnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoby using CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupssimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionKairosDBTimesTenTypeDB infoformerly named GraknWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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As 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 modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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