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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Dragonfly vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Lovefield vs. Weaviate

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
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Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDataStaxDragonflyDB team and community contributorsInterSystemsGoogleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20112023201820142019
Current release6.8, April 20201.0, March 20232023.3, June 20232.1.12, February 20171.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freedepending on used data modelyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes 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 statements (CQL); Spark SQLnoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesnono
Triggersyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectPassword-based authenticationyesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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