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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. Milvus vs. Weaviate

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data gridA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.78
Rank#103  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orghazelcast.commilvus.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogleCNRSHazelcastWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152013200820192019
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.4.4, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, GoGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes 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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2Role-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Google Cloud BigtableH2GISHazelcastMilvusWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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