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DBMS > 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Vertica vs. VoltDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Vertica vs. VoltDB vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 networksCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.vertica.comwww.voltdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comvertica.com/­documentationdocs.voltdb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncAtos Convergence CreatorsOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardVoltDB Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19842016200520102019
Current releasev20, April 2023170312.0.3, January 202311.3, April 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, C++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes 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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
LDAPADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
All languages with LDAP bindingsC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesJavano
Triggersyesyesyes, called Custom Alertsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infocell divisionhorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infoBi-directional Spark integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsLDAP bind authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAtos Standard Common RepositoryVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™VoltDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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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 modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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