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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
google.github.io/­lovefieldprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikigithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduGoogleTobias OetikerWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172014201519992019
Current release1.2.2, February 20232.1.12, February 20171.8.0, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyes 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnononono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes infoby Federationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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