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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.95
Rank	#197	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Mireo

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2020

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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.

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

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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