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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. EXASOL vs. Trino vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.16
Rank#63  Overall
#10  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websiteaerospike.comwww.exasol.comtrino.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcestrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeExasolTrino Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release201220002012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL20192019
Current release7.1, May 20241.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaGoClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luauser defined functionsyes, depending on connected data-sourcenono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on connected data-sourceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on connected data-sourceyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDdepending on connected data-sourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafEXASOLTrinoWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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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 modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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