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Zwave is a closed standard and all your components will be slightly more expensive and harder to buy.
Zigbee is much more open, plus maybe threads will become a big thing one day.
I only use zwave for legacy reasons, I've been using it since before zigbee was a thing and I still have a handful of devices on it.
IKEA is a good source of cheap zigbee components to play with.