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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. Tigris vs. Weaviate

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)www.tigrisdata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tigrisdata.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SCTempoIQTigris Data, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20092011201220222019
Current release2.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyesyes 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 indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client APIHTTP APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes infoRealtime Alertsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnosimple authentication-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
RethinkDBSTSdbTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBTigrisWeaviate
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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