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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Riak TS vs. SpaceTime vs. TypeDB vs. Weaviate

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimetypedb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latesttypedb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCrateOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoVaticleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132015202020162019
Current release3.0.0, September 20222.28.3, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictednoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes, limitedA subset of ANSI SQL is implementednoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)Erlangnonono
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnoSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Synchronous replication via raftyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednono infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 controlrights management via user accountsnoyesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBRiak TSSpaceTimeTypeDB infoformerly named GraknWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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As 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 modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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