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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.kinetica.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.kinetica.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperThomas MuellerCommunity supported by Red HatKineticaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20052014201220092019
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen 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 languageJavaJavaC, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAPI Keys
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H2Hawkular MetricsKineticaTinkerGraphWeaviate
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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