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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml vs. Weaviate

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 FlinkEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogleOracleinformationpartners gmbhWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182014201120152019
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.1.12, February 201723.3, December 20231.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes 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 query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)multiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAPI 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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