DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Realm vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Realm vs. Weaviate

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

realm.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

realm.io/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2010

2016

2012

2014

2019

Current release

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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