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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. JaguarDB vs. Qdrant vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#15  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlqdrant.tech/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.QdrantWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2013201520212019
Current release155853.3 July 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesRustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsKey-based authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseJaguarDBQdrantWeaviate
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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