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System Properties Comparison QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Weaviate

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NameQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitequestdb.iorocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationquestdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperQuestDB Technology IncFacebook, Inc.Sybase, SAPTencentWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142013199320132019
Current release9.2.1, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL with time-series extensionsnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
C++ API
Java API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)horizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID for single-table writesyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configurednoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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QuestDBRocksDBSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSTDSQL for MySQLWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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All 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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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