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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph vs. Kdb vs. Sqrrl vs. Weaviate

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
kx.comsqrrl.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docscode.kx.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHazelcastBaiduKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release200820182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320122019
Current release5.3.6, November 20230.93.6, May 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaqJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, 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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (q)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoEventsnoyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasehorizontal partitioningSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparkno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsrights management via user accountsCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HazelcastHugeGraphKdbSqrrlWeaviate
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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