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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Riak KV vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Riak KV vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesWakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017200920122019
Current release2022, May 20223.2.0, December 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyesno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
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 controlyes, using Riak SecurityyesAPI Keys
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FeatureBaseRiak KVWakandaDBWeaviate
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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