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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big DataA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogleSplunk Inc.Mikio HirabayashiWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142003202020192009
Current release2.1.12, February 20170.9.3, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsnoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyes infousing specific database classesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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LovefieldSplunkTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetWeaviateYaacomo
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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