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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime 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.
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comspotify.github.io/­heroicweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGeoSpockSpotifyWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201220142019
Current release21.2, February 20212.0, September 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EventStoreDBGeoSpockHeroicWeaviate
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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