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DBMS > Riak TS vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Riak TS vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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NameRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteterminusdb.comvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201820112019
Current release3.0.0, September 202211.0.0, January 20237.x1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangProlog, RustC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, 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 indexesrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, limitedSQL-like query language (WOQL)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.NetGraphQL 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
JavaScript
Python
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyesnono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between datasets can be storedyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlBased on Windows AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Riak TSTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVelocityDBWeaviate
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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