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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A cloud-native, realtime vector search engine integrating scalable machine learning models

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.66
Rank	#122	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#264	Overall
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#274	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/current

Developer

Transaction Software GmbH

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

1987

2019

Current release

8.1, December 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.17, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

free development license

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 and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

OpenID Connect Discovery

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