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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. NuoDB vs. Sphinx vs. Weaviate

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aidoc.nuodb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20082016201320012019
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 20223.5.1, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesnoyes 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 indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robindata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID infotunable commit protocolnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HBaseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022NuoDBSphinxWeaviate
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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