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Name

Description

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

origodb.com

solr.apache.org

www.voltdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.voltdb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

VoltDB Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2006

2010

2019

Current release

9.6.0, April 2024

11.3, April 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Java

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Role based authorization

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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