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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitecachelot.iowww.citusdata.comsiridb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.siridb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCesbitWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201020172019
Current release8.1, December 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CCGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoNumeric datayes 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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Cachelot.ioCitusSiriDBWeaviate
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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