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DBMS > Graphite vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Weaviate

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applicationsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperChris DavisOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCTranswarpWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2006200920112019
Current release3.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnorestrictednoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIOpenCypherGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnono
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"nonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak SecuritynoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GraphiteRiak KVSTSdbTranswarp StellarDBWeaviate
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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