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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. DuckDB vs. Hypertable vs. JSqlDb vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgduckdb.orgjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsduckdb.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncHypertable Inc.Konrad von BackstromWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152018200920182019
Current release3.1.0, July 20201.0.0, June 20240.9.8.11, March 20160.8, December 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
macOS
Windows
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 indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache KylinDuckDBHypertableJSqlDbWeaviate
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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