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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Hive vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

hive.apache.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Elastic

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

TempoIQ

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

2014

2012

2019

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple authentication-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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