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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

siridb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.siridb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cesbit

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2017

2019

2009

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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