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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperElasticSpotifyWeaviate B.V.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2010201420192001
Current release8.6, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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ElasticsearchHeroicWeaviateYottaDB
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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