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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. TypeDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. TypeDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgtypedb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationtypedb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsVaticleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20162019
Current release2022, May 202210 R1, October 20182.28.3, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via raftyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoMVCCACIDno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FeatureBasePostgres-XLTypeDB infoformerly named GraknWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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As 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 modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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