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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Weaviate

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.79
Rank#102  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgalaxybase.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSoftware AGChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19712017201220102019
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.1.3, April 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes 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 GatewaynoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL 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
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesNaturalGo
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturaluser defined procedures and functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistaShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"GalaxybaseHiveIBM CloudantWeaviate
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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