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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesWakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152014201520122019
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.0.0, September 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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 indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes, limitednoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangyesno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
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 persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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