DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2019

2009

Current release

1703

2.3.4, January 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

JSON types

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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