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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceIn-memory caching systemEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcachelot.iogoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopenmldb.aigithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
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Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle4 Paradigm Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201420202019
Current release2.1.12, February 20172024-2 February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schemayes, 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.nonononono
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 RESTMemcached protocolJDBC
SQLAlchemy
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
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 integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes, 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 MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBCachelot.ioLovefieldOpenMLDBWeaviate
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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