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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A cloud-native, realtime vector search engine integrating scalable machine learning models

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#267	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#262	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#223	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/index

www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/docs/overview

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/current

Developer

Spotify

Percona

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

2015

2019

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.17, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

OpenID Connect Discovery

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Typical application scenarios

As a stand-alone vector search engine, or use one of the many modules (transformers,...
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Key customers

A ll companies that have data.
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. We also offer Fully managed Weaviate on...
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