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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. RethinkDB vs. Weaviate

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 TransactionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Object oriented DBMSDocument storeDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comobjectbox.iorealm.iorethinkdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20002017201420092019
Current release15.5, September 20202.4.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes 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 statementsnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyes infoChange ListenersClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesyesyes infousers and table-level permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GigaSpacesObjectBoxRealmRethinkDBWeaviate
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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