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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Citus vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformOracles in-memory data grid solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.citusdata.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGoogleOracleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132010200820072019
Current release155858.1, December 201814.1, August 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes, details hereyesyes 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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (GQL)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.using Google App Enginenono
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication using Paxosyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseCitusGoogle Cloud DatastoreOracle CoherenceWeaviate
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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