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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. GridDB vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. Weaviate

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comgriddb.netorigodb.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.griddb.netorigodb.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeoSpockToshiba CorporationRobert Friberg et alByteDance, originally TerarkWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132009 infounder the name LiveDB20162019
Current release2.0, September 20195.1, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++C#C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes 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 infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
C++ API
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetC++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based authorizationnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GeoSpockGridDBOrigoDBTerarkDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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