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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. RavenDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Weaviate

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeWide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comravendb.netrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comravendb.net/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHibernating RhinosThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alex KashirinWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102010200920202019
Current release8.1, December 20185.4, July 20222.4.1, August 20200.5, April 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes 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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)noSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesnono
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding inforange basedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes infousers and table-level permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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CitusRavenDBRethinkDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseWeaviate
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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