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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

nsdb.io

wakanda.github.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

MonetDB BV

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2004

2017

2012

2019

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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