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

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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 dataMicrosoft 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.)Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreAn 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
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftAlachisoftSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20121992200520182019
Current release29.0.1, April 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.3.3, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen 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#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternoyes 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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnono
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednoneyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)noAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DruidMicrosoft AccessNCacheSwayDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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