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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. RethinkDB vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHazelcastThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017STS Soft SCTempoIQWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20082009201120122019
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.4.1, August 20204.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes 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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnonono
Triggersyes infoEventsClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate 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 commitedAtomic single-document operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnosimple authentication-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HazelcastRethinkDBSTSdbTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBWeaviate
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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