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DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Postgres-XL vs. Tigris vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Postgres-XL vs. Tigris vs. Weaviate

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitegeospock.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.tigrisdata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.tigrisdata.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeoSpockTigris Data, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20222019
Current release2.0, September 201910 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
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 indexestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes 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)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
GeoSpockPostgres-XLTigrisWeaviate
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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