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DBMS > Oracle Rdb vs. Prometheus vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. Prometheus vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlprometheus.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlprometheus.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Weaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release1984201520192009
Current release7.4.1.1, 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSLinux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonoACID
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Oracle RdbPrometheusWeaviateYaacomo
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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