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DBMS > Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. Splice Machine vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. Splice Machine vs. Weaviate

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifyRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSplice MachineWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2014199320142019
Current release3.4-123.1, March 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HeroicOpenQM infoalso called QMSplice MachineWeaviate
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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