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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iodocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201520132019
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.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 proceduresLuanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnosimple rights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBBigObjectInfluxDBWeaviate
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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