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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb vs. SingleStore vs. Weaviate

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCloud-based data warehousing serviceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.61
Rank#156  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score2.00
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.singlestore.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.singlestore.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifyIBMCirconus LLC.SingleStore Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20142014201720132019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20188.5, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++, GoGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes 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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HeroicIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBIRONdbSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLWeaviate
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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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 modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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