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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. OceanBase vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
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.A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA 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 StoreRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.97
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbwww.eventstore.comen.oceanbase.comrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdevelopers.eventstore.comen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaEvent Store LimitedOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupRocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201020192019
Current release21.2, February 20214.3.0, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialOpen 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
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesdynamic 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.noyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Automatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using Paxosyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBEventStoreDBOceanBaseRocksetWeaviate
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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