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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaAlex KashirinWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20092018202020092019
Current release2.4.1, August 20200.5, April 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyesyes 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 indexesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
Thrift
TinkerPop 3GraphQL 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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basednoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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RethinkDBSwayDBSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTinkerGraphWeaviate
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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