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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122017201720122019
Current release29.0.1, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeFixed schemayesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes 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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DruidIRONdbManticore SearchSQL.JSWeaviate
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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