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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. Kingbase vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Solr  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score32.40
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Vector DBMS
Websitesolr.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release200619992019
Current release9.6.1, May 2024V8.0, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes 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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceStandard with numerous extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava pluginsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache SolrKingbaseWeaviate
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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