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System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. Solr vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Spatial extension of H2A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucenea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgsolr.apache.orgsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homesolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFoundationDBCNRSApache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132013200620172019
Current release6.2.28, November 20209.6.0, April 20242022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyes infobased on H2Java pluginsuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2yesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FoundationDBH2GISSolrSQream DBWeaviate
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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