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DBMS > BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.heavy.aiwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201620132019
Current release5.10, January 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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 indexesyesnoyesyes 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 statementsyesSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoJavaScriptno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SequoiadbWeaviate
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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