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DBMS > PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

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NamePostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitepostgis.netwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTranswarpWeaviate B.V.
Initial release200520152019
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitedyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC 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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangno
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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PostGISRiak TSTranswarp ArgoDBWeaviate
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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