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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenQM vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20161979201619932019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 20223.4-121.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAGo
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.noyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBdBASEHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022OpenQM infoalso called QMWeaviate
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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