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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Embarcadero

Google

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1984

2014

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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