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DBMS > HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Kinetica vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.kinetica.comwakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aihugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.BaiduKineticaWakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162018201220122019
Current release5.10, January 20220.97.1, August 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaC, C++C++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HugeGraphKineticaWakandaDBWeaviate
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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