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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
sphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHazelcastBaiduSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20082018200120142019
Current release5.3.6, November 20230.93.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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 strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes 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 (SphinxQL)yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyes infoEventsnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesvia hugegraph-sparknoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HazelcastHugeGraphSphinxTrafodionWeaviate
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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