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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Phoenix vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgorigodb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlphoenix.apache.orgorigodb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaApache Software FoundationRobert Friberg et alWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release201320142009 infounder the name LiveDB20192015
Current release4.1.0, June 20225.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++JavaC#Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyRole based authorizationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache ImpalaApache PhoenixOrigoDBWeaviateYanza
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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