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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCCRi and othersIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.RocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2014200520192019
Current release5.0.1, July 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaCC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes 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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GeoMesaInfobrightRocksetWeaviate
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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