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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblueflood.ioopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netquasar.aigithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperRackspaceOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132014201120092019
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infowith tagsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BluefloodNewtsOpenTSDBQuasardbWeaviate
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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