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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. Weaviate

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesVector DBMS
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Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbrealm.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
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Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbrealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSoftware AGAlibabaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1971201420092019
Current release3.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangGo
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalJava.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Access managed on TSDB instance levelyesyes, using Riak SecurityAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"Alibaba Cloud TSDBRealmRiak KVWeaviate
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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