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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. LevelDB vs. Linter vs. TiDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRDBMS for high security requirementsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldblinter.rupingcap.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stableweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGooglerelex.ruPingCAP, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20142011199020162019
Current release1.23, February 20218.0.0, March 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++Go, RustGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes 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.noyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AlaSQLLevelDBLinterTiDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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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 modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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