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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. RisingWave vs. Weaviate

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitequasar.aiwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperquasardbRisingWave LabsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release200920222019
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.2, September 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binaryStandard SQL-types and JSONyes 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 indexesyes infowith tagsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and RolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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QuasardbRisingWaveWeaviate
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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