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DBMS > Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

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NameRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereTDEngine, previously Taos DataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2009201020192019
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.0, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen 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 languageErlangJavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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 indexesrestrictednonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storednonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Riak KVSiteWhereTDengineWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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As 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 metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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