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DBMS > Graphite vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. Weaviate

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webnsdb.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperChris DavisHuawei and openGauss communityWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2006201720192019
Current release3.0, March 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ScalaC, C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GraphiteNSDbopenGaussWeaviate
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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