DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2019

2009

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

1703

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

LDAP

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages with LDAP bindings

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

LDAP bind authentication

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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