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DBMS > RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhereSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2009201020182019
Current release2.4.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes 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 indexesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGraphQL 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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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RethinkDBSiteWhereSwayDBWeaviate
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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