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DBMS > Infobright vs. SiteWhere vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. SiteWhere vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

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NameInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yottadb.com
Technical documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.SiteWhereWeaviate B.V.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2005201020192001
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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 indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
More information provided by the system vendor
InfobrightSiteWhereWeaviateYottaDB
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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