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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.mcobject.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMcObjectIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release200120052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20172019
Current release8.2, 202110 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CCC++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availablenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesno 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 infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
.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 proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabricâ„¢ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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eXtremeDBInfobrightPostgres-XLTigerGraphWeaviate
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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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 modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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