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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financerethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.auterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132009201820182019
Current release155852.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ScalaProlog, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basednoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnoRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseRethinkDBSwayDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
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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