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DBMS > BigObject vs. Citus vs. OpenQM vs. Tibero vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Citus vs. OpenQM vs. Tibero vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.citusdata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.citusdata.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTmaxSoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152010199320032019
Current release8.1, December 20183.4-126, April 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and AssemblerGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)no
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyeshorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnono infoplanned for next versionyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectCitusOpenQM infoalso called QMTiberoWeaviate
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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