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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositoryquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19842016201420132019
Current releasev20, April 202317031.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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.yesyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionhorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationsimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAtos Standard Common RepositoryQuestDBSequoiadbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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All 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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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