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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. SingleStore vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.singlestore.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftSingleStore Inc.Alex KashirinTempoIQWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102013202020122019
Current release8.5, January 20240.5, April 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation language.NET and CC++, GoC++Go
Server operating systems.NETLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolessimple authentication-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinitySingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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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 modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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