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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. GridGain vs. HyperSQL vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comhsqldb.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2014200720012019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019GridGain 8.5.12.7.2, June 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial, open sourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java, SQLno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixGridGainHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBWeaviate
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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