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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitequasar.airocksdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperquasardbFacebook, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2009201320132019
Current release3.14.1, January 20249.4.0, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binarynoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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 infowith tagsnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnosimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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QuasardbRocksDBSequoiadbWeaviate
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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