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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.SiteWhereWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152016200220102019
Current release5.10, January 20224.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradepredefined schemeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes 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 indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InfinityDBSiteWhereWeaviate
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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