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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. Splunk vs. StarRocks vs. Weaviate

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.splunk.comwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200320202019
Current release10 R1, October 20183.3, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open 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 languageCC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingnono
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Postgres-XLSplunkStarRocksWeaviate
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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