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System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmanticoresearch.comnsdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicmanual.manticoresearch.comnsdb.io/­Architectureweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHarperDBSpotifyManticore SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172014201720172019
Current release3.1, August 20216.0, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsJavaC++Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeFixed schemayes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1nouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.Using Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
HarperDBHeroicManticore SearchNSDbWeaviate
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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