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DBMS > Machbase Neo vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. openGauss vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitemachbase.comgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMachbaseHuawei and openGauss communityWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20233.0, March 202210 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++, JavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011yes infodistributed, parallel query executionGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes
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 integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tablenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Machbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxopenGaussPostgres-XLWeaviate
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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