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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. CrateDB vs. Ehcache vs. Lovefield vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceDistributed Database based on LuceneA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbcratedb.comwww.ehcache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbcratedb.com/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaCrateTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2013200920142019
Current release3.10.0, March 20222.1.12, February 20171.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
JavaJavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)nonono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event ListenersUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelrights management via user accountsnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBCrateDBEhcacheLovefieldWeaviate
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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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 modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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