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DBMS > FatDB vs. Ingres vs. OpenTSDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Ingres vs. OpenTSDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Well established RDBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresopentsdb.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFatCloudActian Corporationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20112019
Current release11.2, May 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#CJavaGo
Server operating systemsWindowsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes 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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyesnono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FatDBIngresOpenTSDBWeaviate
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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