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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. ClickHouse vs. Weaviate vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

clickhouse.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

clickhouse.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Clickhouse Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1999

2013

2016

2019

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

GraphQL is used as query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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