DBMS > Apache Drill vs. SingleStore vs. TypeDB vs. Virtuoso vs. Weaviate
System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. SingleStore vs. TypeDB vs. Virtuoso vs. Weaviate
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Name | Apache Drill Xexclude from comparison | SingleStore former name was MemSQL Xexclude from comparison | TypeDB formerly named Grakn Xexclude from comparison | Virtuoso Xexclude from comparison | Weaviate Xexclude from comparison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage | MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type | TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language | Virtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphs | An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary database model | Document store Relational DBMS | Relational DBMS | Graph DBMS Relational DBMS Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies. | Document store Graph DBMS Native XML DBMS Relational DBMS RDF store Search engine | Vector DBMS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary database models | Document store Spatial DBMS Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS | Spatial DBMS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | drill.apache.org | www.singlestore.com | typedb.com | virtuoso.openlinksw.com | github.com/weaviate/weaviate weaviate.io | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Technical documentation | drill.apache.org/docs | docs.singlestore.com | typedb.com/docs | docs.openlinksw.com/virtuoso | weaviate.io/developers/weaviate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Developer | Apache Software Foundation | SingleStore Inc. | Vaticle | OpenLink Software | Weaviate B.V. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Initial release | 2012 | 2013 | 2016 | 1998 | 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current release | 1.20.3, January 2023 | 8.5, January 2024 | 2.26.3, January 2024 | 7.2.11, September 2023 | 1.19, May 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
License Commercial or Open Source | Open Source Apache Version 2 | commercial free developer edition available | Open Source GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available | Open Source GPLv2, extended commercial license available | Open Source commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service | no | no | no | no | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Implementation language | C++, Go | Java | C | Go | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server operating systems | Linux OS X Windows | Linux 64 bit version required | Linux OS X Windows | AIX FreeBSD HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris Windows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data scheme | schema-free | yes | yes | yes SQL - Standard relational schema RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O) XML - DTD, XML Schema DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type | yes, maps to GraphQL interface | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typing predefined data types such as float or date | yes | yes | yes | yes | 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. | no | no | no | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secondary indexes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SQL Support of SQL | SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant | yes but no triggers and foreign keys | no | yes SQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLX | GraphQL is used as query language | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APIs and other access methods | JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API | Cluster Management API as HTTP Rest and CLI HTTP API JDBC MongoDB API ODBC | gRPC protocol TypeDB Console (shell) TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase) | ADO.NET GeoSPARQL HTTP API JDBC Jena RDF API ODBC OLE DB RDF4J API RESTful HTTP API Sesame REST HTTP Protocol SOAP webservices SPARQL 1.1 WebDAV XPath XQuery XSLT | GraphQL query language RESTful HTTP/JSON API | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Supported programming languages | C++ | Bash C C# Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python | All JVM based languages Groovy Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Scala | .Net C C# C++ Java JavaScript Perl PHP Python Ruby Visual Basic | JavaScript / TypeScript Python | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Server-side scripts Stored procedures | user defined functions | yes | no | yes Virtuoso PL | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Triggers | no | no | no | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes | Sharding | Sharding hash partitioning | Sharding by using Cassandra | yes | Sharding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes | Source-replica replication stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes | Multi-source replication by using Cassandra | Chain, star, and bi-directional replication Multi-source replication Source-replica replication | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods | yes | no can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations | yes by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system | none | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Immediate Consistency | Eventual Consistency | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Foreign keys Referential integrity | no | no | no substituted by the relationship feature | yes | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data | no | ACID | ACID | ACID | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data | yes | yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) | yes | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Durability Support for making data persistent | Depending on the underlying data source | yes All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log. | yes | yes | 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 | no | yes | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
User concepts Access control | Depending on the underlying data source | Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles | yes at REST API level; other APIs in progress | Fine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos) | API Keys OpenID Connect Discovery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Apache Drill | SingleStore former name was MemSQL | TypeDB formerly named Grakn | Virtuoso | Weaviate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Specific characteristics | SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed... » more | TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping... » more | Virtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations... » more | Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Competitive advantages | SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with... » more | TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and... » more | Performance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,... » more | Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Typical application scenarios | Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting... » more | Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates... » more | Used for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs... » more | As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Key customers | IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,... » more | Broad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government... » more | All companies that have data. » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Market metrics | Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry... » more | Largest installed-base of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform... » more | As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community... » more | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing and pricing models | F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition » more | Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The... » more | Available in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature... » more | Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed... » more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Apache Drill | SingleStore former name was MemSQL | TypeDB formerly named Grakn | Virtuoso | Weaviate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DB-Engines blog posts | Turbocharge Your Application Development Using WebAssembly With SingleStoreDB Cloud-Based Analytics With SingleStoreDB SingleStore: The Increasing Momentum of Multi-Model Database Systems | Weaviate, an ANN Database with CRUD support MapR to Speak on Stream Processing Systems, Apache Spark and Drill at Industry Events in January Apache Drill case study: A tutorial on processing CSV files Apache Drill vs. Apache Spark — Which SQL query engine is better for you? Apache Drill Poised to Crack Tough Data Challenges Apache Drill Eliminates ETL, Data Transformation for MapR Database provided by Google News Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond SingleStore CEO sees little future for purpose-built vector databases SingleStore Announces Real-time Data Platform to Further Accelerate AI, Analytics and Application Development SingleStore adds indexed vector search to Pro Max release for faster AI work – Blocks and Files Announcing watsonx.ai and SingleStore for generative AI applications provided by Google News An Enterprise Data Stack Using TypeDB | by Daniel Crowe Spacecraft Engineering Models: How to Migrate UML to TypeQL Modelling Biomedical Data for a Drug Discovery Knowledge Graph How Roche Discovered Novel Potential Gene Targets with TypeDB Building a Biomedical Knowledge Graph | by Daniel Crowe provided by Google News Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector ... Weaviate Partners with Snowflake to Bring Secure GenAI to Snowpark Container Services Weaviate Partners with Snowflake to Bring Secure GenAI to Snowpark Container Services Foley Represents Cortical Ventures in $50M Series B Round for Weaviate Getting Started with Weaviate: A Beginner's Guide to Search with Vector Databases provided by Google News |
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