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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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NamePercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperPerconaApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201420112019
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaC#Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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 indexesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Percona Server for MongoDBSpark SQLSTSdbWeaviate
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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