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DBMS > Geode vs. HugeGraph vs. Riak KV vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. HugeGraph vs. Riak KV vs. Weaviate

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesVector DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.BaiduOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2002201820092019
Current release1.1, February 20170.93.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes 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 indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)nonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsErlangno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDnono
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableUsers, roles and permissionsyes, using Riak SecurityAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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