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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. KairosDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.32
Rank#288  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegeospock.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationGeoSpockWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release155852.0, September 20191.2.2, November 201810 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablesimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseGeoSpockKairosDBPostgres-XLWeaviate
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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