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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Trafodion vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmltrafodion.apache.orgvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20141984201420132019
Current release7.4.1.1, 20212.3.0, February 201915.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++, JavaGoGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP Open VMSLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBasenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes, on a single nodeACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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LokiJSOracle RdbTrafodionVitessWeaviate
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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