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System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. Rockset vs. Solr vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrockset.comsolr.apache.orgvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.rockset.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlvitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)RocksetApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19842019200620132019
Current release7.4.1.1, 20219.6.1, May 202415.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoGo
Server operating systemsHP Open VMShostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes 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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava pluginsyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenooptimistic lockingACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Oracle RdbRocksetSolrVitessWeaviate
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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