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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

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Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.mongodb.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.tdengine.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

MongoDB, Inc

Percona

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2009

2008

2019

Current release

7.0.5, January 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.0, August 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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TDengine™ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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High Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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TDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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