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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.siridb.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Cesbit

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2017

2018

2011

2019

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript
Python

.Net

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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