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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Weaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132017199820192015
Current release1.2.2, November 20184.0 (May 2024)11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQLnono
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
KairosDBObjectBoxTimesTenWeaviateYanza
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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