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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graphite vs. InfluxDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBElasticChris DavisWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122010200620132019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20218.6, January 20232.7.6, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaPythonGoGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data and Stringsyes 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, geospatialyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednonoyes 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 toolSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
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 modeMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)nosimple rights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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