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System Properties Comparison Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyHEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaGoogleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201220112019
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20225.10, January 20227.1, August 20211.23, February 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC, C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodespartitioning by range, list and by hashSharding infoRound robinShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Fujitsu Enterprise PostgresHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaLevelDBWeaviate
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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As 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 metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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