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DBMS > IRONdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate vs. YTsaurus

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/terminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperCirconus LLC.DataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.Yandex
Initial release2017201820192023
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201811.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, RustGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxUbuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query languageYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareJournaling Streamsyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Access Control Lists
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IRONdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviateYTsaurus
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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