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DBMS > Databricks vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDatabricksGoogleSplunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2013201420032019
Current release2.1.12, February 20171.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesno
TriggersUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Weaviate 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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