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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifySenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162007201420152019
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)yesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBGridGainHeroicWarp 10Weaviate
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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