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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. BoltDB vs. Lovefield vs. OpenTenBase vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleOpenAtom Foundation, previously TencentWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320142019
Current release2.1.12, February 20172.5, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyesyes 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 indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGoJavaScriptC
Go
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBBoltDBLovefieldOpenTenBaseWeaviate
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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