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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hypertable vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeWide column storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#71  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgecloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFairCom CorporationGoogleHypertable Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20131979200820092019
Current release15585V3, October 20200.9.8.11, March 20161.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes, details herenoyes 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query language (GQL)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++using Google App Enginenono
TriggersyesyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor on file system levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate 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.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLyes 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 Transactionsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGoogle Cloud DatastoreHypertableWeaviate
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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