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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Weaviate

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
nsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesBaiduApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20002018201720142019
Current release15.5, September 20200.93.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJava, ScalaScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes 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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexednoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GigaSpacesHugeGraphNSDbSpark SQLWeaviate
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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