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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hive vs. Riak TS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA 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 DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghive.apache.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132012201520092019
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.0.0, September 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen 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 languageJavaJavaErlangJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictednoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, limitednoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceErlangnono
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factorselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and rolesnonoAPI Keys
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H2GISHiveRiak TSTinkerGraphWeaviate
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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