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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data gridAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A 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 modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghazelcast.comwww.kingbase.com.cntinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSHazelcastBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132008199920092019
Current release5.3.6, November 2023V8.0, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen 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 and JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated Mapyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnono
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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H2GISHazelcastKingbaseTinkerGraphWeaviate
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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