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DBMS > PlanetScale vs. Riak KV vs. Tarantool vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison PlanetScale vs. Riak KV vs. Tarantool vs. Weaviate

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NamePlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteplanetscale.comwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperPlanetScaleOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVKWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2020200920082019
Current release3.2.0, December 20222.10.0, May 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC and C++Go
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes 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
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Open binary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxErlangLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at shard levelnoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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PlanetScaleRiak KVTarantoolWeaviate
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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