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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comblueflood.iomaxdb.sap.comorigodb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikimaxdb.sap.com/­documentationorigodb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncRackspaceSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Robert Friberg et alWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1984201319842009 infounder the name LiveDB2019
Current releasev20, April 20237.9.10.12, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes 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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesdepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionBluefloodMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOrigoDBWeaviate
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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