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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS and big data platformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netpostgis.netgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tdengine.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTDEngine, previously Taos DataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2011200520192019
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.0, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsTDengine™ 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 advantagesHigh 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 scenariosTDengine 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 customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsTDengine 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 modelsTDengine 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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