DBMS > Graph Engine vs. LeanXcale vs. TempoIQ vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. LeanXcale vs. TempoIQ vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.leanxcale.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

wakanda.github.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

LeanXcale

TempoIQ

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

2015

2012

2019

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple authentication-based access control

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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