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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Firebolt vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.61
Rank#235  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score5.61
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitedoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
pinot.apache.orgduckdb.orgwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidocs.pinot.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docsdocs.firebolt.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20172015201820202019
Current release1.2.2, February 20231.0.0, September 20231.0.0, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-lesshosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL client
JDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DorisApache PinotDuckDBFireboltWeaviate
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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