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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Qdrant vs. RethinkDB vs. Weaviate

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rethinkdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsqdrant.tech/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsQdrantThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20142018202120092019
Current release2023.3, June 20232.4.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaRustC++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesKey-based authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HeroicInterSystems IRISQdrantRethinkDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Weaviate 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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