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DBMS > Infobright vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Kyligence, Inc.STS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release200520162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20112019
Current release10 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnono
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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InfobrightKyligence EnterprisePostgres-XLSTSdbWeaviate
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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