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DBMS > BigObject vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.memcached.orgorigodb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiorigodb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRobert Friberg et alWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201520032009 infounder the name LiveDB2019
Current release1.6.29, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes 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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes 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 statementsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based authorizationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectMemcachedOrigoDBWeaviate
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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