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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Hazelcast vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sqrrl vs. Weaviate

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA widely adopted in-memory data gridTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hazelcast.commachbase.comsqrrl.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHazelcastMachbaseAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20232008201320122019
Current release1.0, March 20235.3.6, November 2023V8.0, August 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyesyes 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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
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#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infoEventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DragonflyHazelcastMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxSqrrlWeaviate
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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