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

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

In-memory caching system

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.24
Rank	#306	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

cachelot.io

google.github.io/lovefield

trino.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Trino Software Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Memcached protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

depending on connected data-source

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

depending on connected data-source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

SQL standard access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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 models

Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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