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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgbangdb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.bangdb.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSachin Sinha, BangDBMicrosoftSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122012199220182019
Current release29.0.1, April 2024BangDB 2.0, October 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoBSD 3commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL like support with command line toolyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)nonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyes (enterprise version only)no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noAPI Keys
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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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