DBMS > OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison OpenSearch vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon Web Services

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

Simer Plaha

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2021

2009

2010

2018

2019

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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