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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. Tarantool vs. Weaviate

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of H2In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comblueflood.iowww.h2gis.orgwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.tarantool.io/­en/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBRackspaceCNRSVKWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122013201320082019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.10.0, May 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes 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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTOpen binary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2Lua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on H2Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)noyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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