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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. Realm vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaserealm.iosqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9realm.io/­docsdocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHazelcastRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20081991201420172019
Current release5.3.6, November 20235.72022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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 strategyyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyes infoEventsyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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