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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­torodb/­servergithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.8KdataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release200920052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20162019
Current release3.10.0, March 202210 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes 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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta ServerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EhcacheInfobrightPostgres-XLToroDBWeaviate
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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