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System Properties Comparison Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. Solr vs. Weaviate

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/memgraph.comsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmemgraph.com/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.Memgraph LtdApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122017201720062019
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 20189.6.1, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in LuaJava pluginsno
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication using RAFTyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoUsers, roles and permissionsyesAPI Keys
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HiveIRONdbMemgraphSolrWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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As 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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