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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Linter vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataRDBMS for high security requirementsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orglinter.ruobjectbox.ioterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.objectbox.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsrelex.ruObjectBox LimitedDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20121990201720182019
Current release29.0.1, April 202411.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DruidLinterObjectBoxTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
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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