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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Geode vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

geode.apache.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2002

2013

2018

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

1.1, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

yes

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Access rights per client and object definable

Role-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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