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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Interbase vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Weaviate

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#40  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#176  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#276  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgiotdb.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqliotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoKyligence, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20142018198420162019
Current release1.1.0, April 2023InterBase 2020, December 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
Native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLApache IoTDBInterbaseKyligence EnterpriseWeaviate
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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