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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Drizzle vs. H2GIS vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial extension of H2Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2gis.orgtempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCNRSTempoIQWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142008201320122019
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes 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.yes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBCHTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on H2yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infobased on H2simple authentication-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AlaSQLDrizzleH2GISTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBWeaviate
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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