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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Heroic vs. Realm vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrealm.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apispotify.github.io/­heroicrealm.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCloudflareSpotifyRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132018201420142019
Current release155851.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseCloudflare Workers KVHeroicRealmWeaviate
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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