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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Riak TS vs. TiDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgpingcap.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stableweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesPingCAP, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132015201620092019
Current release3.0.0, September 20228.1.0, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangGo, RustJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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 indexesyesrestrictedyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitedyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC 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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Erlangnonono
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infowith TiSpark Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
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H2GISRiak TSTiDBTinkerGraphWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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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 modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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