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DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Multivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)SAP, SybaseWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20171991200519872019
Current release5.73.4.2, February 202416.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes 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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon NeptunejBASEPostGISSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASEWeaviate
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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