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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. OrigoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  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 metricA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchorigodb.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperElasticRobert Friberg et alSenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102009 infounder the name LiveDB2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20152019
Current release8.6, January 202310 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC#CJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyesyes 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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoDomain Eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
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, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based authorizationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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ElasticsearchOrigoDBPostgres-XLWarp 10Weaviate
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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