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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comgeospock.comwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsGeoSpockMonetDB BVWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201720042019
Current release2022, May 20222.0, September 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnotemporal, categoricalyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FeatureBaseGeoSpockMonetDBWeaviate
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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