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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score2.00
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCNRSSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320172019
Current release2022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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H2GISSQream 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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