DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Heroic vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Heroic vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/hana

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Cloudflare

Spotify

SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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