DBMS > HBase vs. OpenSearch vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenSearch vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.warp10.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Amazon Web Services

SenX

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

2021

2015

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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