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DBMS > Qdrant vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Qdrant vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

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NameQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
swaydb.simer.augithub.com/­torodb/­servergithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperQdrantSimer Plaha8KdataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2021201820162019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustScalaJavaGo
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsnono
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlKey-based authenticationnoAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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QdrantSwayDBToroDBWeaviate
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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