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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2007

2015

2019

Current release

14.1, August 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

restricted

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

GraphQL 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++
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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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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