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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Riak TS vs. Sphinx vs. Weaviate

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2007201520012019
Current release14.1, August 20233.0.0, September 20223.5.1, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes 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
Secondary indexesnorestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, limitedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnono
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurablenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Oracle CoherenceRiak TSSphinxWeaviate
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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