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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsOracleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SADAS s.r.l.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20122011198420062019
Current release29.0.1, April 202423.3, December 20237.4.1.1, 20218.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
HP Open VMSAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)yes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cachenoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DruidOracle NoSQLOracle RdbSadas EngineWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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