DBMS > Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

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Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Google

Percona

ByteDance, originally Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

2015

2016

1998

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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