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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. TimescaleDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.timescale.comwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.timescale.comwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogleTimescaleSenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201720152019
Current release2.15.0, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnono
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Google Cloud BigtableTimescaleDBWarp 10Weaviate
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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