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DBMS > 4D vs. Coveo vs. EXASOL vs. LeanXcale vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Coveo vs. EXASOL vs. LeanXcale vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.coveo.comwww.exasol.comwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.coveo.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncCoveoExasolLeanXcaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19842012200020152019
Current releasev20, April 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesyes infothrough Apache DerbyGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionCoveoEXASOLLeanXcaleWeaviate
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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