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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmltrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAltibaseCloudflareOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19992018198420142019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.4.1.1, 20212.3.0, February 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedHP Open VMSLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACIDno
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AltibaseCloudflare Workers KVOracle RdbTrafodionWeaviate
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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