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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. dBASE vs. JSqlDb vs. Riak KV vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for HadoopdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteimpala.apache.orgwww.dbase.comjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaAsthon TateKonrad von BackstromOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20131979201820092019
Current release4.1.0, June 2022dBASE 2019, 20190.8, December 20183.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes 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 indexesyesyesnorestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCdBase proprietary IDEJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak SecurityAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache ImpaladBASEJSqlDbRiak KVWeaviate
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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