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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgrockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsvictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSRocksetinformationpartners gmbhVictoriaMetricsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132019201520182019
Current release1.0v1.91, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++GoGo
Server operating systemshostedWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyesyes 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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedyesnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSynchronous replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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H2GISRocksetsearchxmlVictoriaMetricsWeaviate
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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