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System Properties Comparison TerarkDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate

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NameTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#354  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperByteDance, originally TerarkMikio HirabayashiWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201620202019
Current release0.9.3, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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TerarkDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetWeaviate
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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