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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Bangdb vs. H2 vs. Pinecone vs. Weaviate

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 graphFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.h2database.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.bangdb.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSachin Sinha, BangDBThomas MuellerPinecone Systems, IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182012200520192019
Current release1.1.0, April 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.2.220, July 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesString, Number, Booleanyes 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, geospatialyesyes 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 toolyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaPythonJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesno
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 algorithmnoneSharding
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)With 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 Sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 modeyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache IoTDBBangdbH2PineconeWeaviate
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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