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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Infobright vs. ITTIA vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingBased 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 modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.ittia.comwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDGraph LabsIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.ITTIA L.L.C.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2017200520072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release8.710 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesyes 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 indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BadgerInfobrightITTIAPostgres-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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