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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

1993

2019

Current release

3.4-12

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

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

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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