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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  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 simplicityA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Transaction Software GmbHVelocityDB IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017198720112019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018Transbase 8.3, 20227.x1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C#Go
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyesyes 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)yesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.NetGraphQL 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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesnono
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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IRONdbTransbaseVelocityDBWeaviate
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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