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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comopentsdb.netwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSADAS s.r.l.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201120062019
Current release8.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
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BigchainDBOpenTSDBSadas EngineWeaviate
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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