DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. Weaviate

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Name

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Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

bigobject.io

geospock.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

BigObject, Inc.

GeoSpock

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2015

1995

2019

Current release

1703

2.0, September 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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