DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rockset.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.rockset.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Rockset

Simer Plaha

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

1989

2019

2018

2019

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

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++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

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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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