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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.51
Rank#60  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#6  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
DeveloperAerospikeGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122015201320032019
Current release7.0, November 20232.7.6, April 20241.6.27, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGoCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsnoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luanononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafGoogle Cloud BigtableInfluxDBMemcachedWeaviate
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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