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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transwarp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

1998

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OpenCypher

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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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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