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DBMS > IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Infobright vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

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NameIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBMIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.TranswarpWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201720052019
Current release2.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of dataNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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IBM Db2 Event StoreInfobrightTranswarp ArgoDBWeaviate
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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