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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh performance Time Series DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comkx.comquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcode.kx.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003200920132019
Current release3.6, May 20183.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonqC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infowith tagsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJavaScriptno
Triggersyes infowith viewsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBKdbQuasardbSequoiadbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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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 modelsupon request
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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