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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.kinetica.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatKineticaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122008201420122019
Current release1.20.3, January 20237.2.4, September 20127.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcePluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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