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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Graph Engine vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSpatial extension of SQLiteAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftAlessandro FurieriWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201020082019
Current release1.20.3, January 20235.0.0, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyes 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 compliantnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourcenoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DrillGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinitySpatiaLiteWeaviate
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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