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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteopentsdb.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsWeaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release201120192019
Current release1.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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OpenTSDBWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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