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DBMS > Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2008201520192009
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20193.0.0, September 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptErlangGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes, limitedGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DrizzleGeoSpockRiak TSWeaviateYaacomo
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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