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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSEvent StoreDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdevelopers.eventstore.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaEvent Store LimitedFoundationDBRocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201320192019
Current release21.2, February 20216.2.28, November 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsno infosome layers support typingdynamic typingyes 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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBEventStoreDBFoundationDBRocksetWeaviate
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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