DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. MaxDB vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

maxdb.sap.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2003

2019

Current release

15585

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.6.27, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

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

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

restricted

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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