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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Weaviate

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.compostgis.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201419942009 infounder the name LiveDB20052019
Current release4.4, October 20213.4.2, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes 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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQLAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Hawkular MetricsmSQL infoMini SQLOrigoDBPostGISWeaviate
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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