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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTime Series DBMS and big data platformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score2.68
Rank#109  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.sqlite.orgwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.stardog.comdocs.tdengine.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippStardog-UnionTDEngine, previously Taos DataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172000201020192019
Current release3.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20247.3.0, May 20203.0, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaCGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyesyes 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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handlersyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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ObjectBoxSQLiteStardogTDengineWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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As 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 metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 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 modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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