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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinWidely used in-process key-value storeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#269  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSCirconus LLC.Kyligence, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132017201619942019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201818.1.40, May 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes 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.nononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, 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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nonoAPI Keys
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H2GISIRONdbKyligence EnterpriseOracle Berkeley DBWeaviate
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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