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System Properties Comparison SiriDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen Source Time Series DBMSScalable 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)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitesiridb.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.comvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.siridb.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuidevitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCesbitDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB IncThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172018201120132019
Current release11.0.0, January 20237.x15.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCProlog, RustC#GoGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAny that supports .NETDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoNumeric datayesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)noyes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.NetADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph PartitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsRole-based access controlBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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SiriDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVelocityDBVitessWeaviate
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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