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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. Weaviate

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017200920102019
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaErlangJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freepredefined schemeyes, 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 indexesyesrestrictednoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsErlangno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GalaxybaseRiak KVSiteWhereWeaviate
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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