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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. AlaSQL vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemJavaScript DBMS libraryA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comalasql.orgphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlphoenix.apache.orgweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1984201420142019
Current releasev20, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JavaScript APIJDBCGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlaSQLApache PhoenixWeaviate
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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