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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. QuestDB vs. Riak KV vs. Weaviate

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerquestdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleQuestDB Technology IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20121983201420092019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202119.4.1, November 20213.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesnoyes 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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnorestrictedyes 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 toolyes infovia pluginsSQL with time-series extensionsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
PHPC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoErlangno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
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 modeyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, using Riak SecurityAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BangdbFileMakerQuestDBRiak KVWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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All 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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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