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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Qdrant vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yottadb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgqdrant.tech/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationQdrantWeaviate B.V.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2014202120192001
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaRustGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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 indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Collection-level replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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-tenancyKey-based authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache PhoenixQdrantWeaviateYottaDB
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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