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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.58
Rank#105  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgrethinkdb.comrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017RocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2001200920192019
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.4.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrydynamic 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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnono
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basedAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBRethinkDBRocksetWeaviate
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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