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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. RRDtool vs. Weaviate

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score2.98
Rank#91  Overall
#17  Document stores
#14  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.IBMInterSystemsTobias OetikerWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162014201819992019
Current release2.1, December 20182023.3, June 20231.8.0, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesdepending on used data modelyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes 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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AgensGraphIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBInterSystems IRISRRDtoolWeaviate
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Weaviate 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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