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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Bangdb vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. H2 vs. Weaviate

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#346  Overall
#47  Document stores
#35  Graph DBMS
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score4.82
Rank#65  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.bangdb.comdocs.datastax.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBDataStaxThomas MuellerWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182012201120052019
Current release1.1.0, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20216.8, April 20202.2.220, July 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes (enterprise version only)Access rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache IoTDBBangdbDatastax EnterpriseH2Weaviate
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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