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DBMS > Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. RisingWave vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. RisingWave vs. Weaviate

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iomaxdb.sap.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikimaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperRackspaceSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997RisingWave LabsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2013198420222019
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20241.2, September 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes 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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and RolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BluefloodMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DRisingWaveWeaviate
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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