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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sqlite.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Esgyn

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2013

2000

2019

Current release

2.7.5, January 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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