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System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big DataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncGoogleSplunk Inc.Mikio HirabayashiWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182014200320202019
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20222.1.12, February 20170.9.3, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DolphinDBLovefieldSplunkTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetWeaviate
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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