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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsprometheus.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSOpenNMS GroupquasardbWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132014201520092019
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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H2GISNewtsPrometheusQuasardbWeaviate
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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