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System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate

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NameInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.snowflake.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSnowflake Computing Inc.Mikio HirabayashiWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20131993201420202019
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.4-120.9.3, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes 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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyesyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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InfluxDBOpenQM infoalso called QMSnowflakeTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetWeaviate
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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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 modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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