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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. ReductStore vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

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

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.62
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.vertica.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.reduct.store/docs

vertica.com/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Percona

ReductStore LLC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2023

2005

2019

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.9, March 2024

12.0.3, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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