DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SWC-DB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Weaviate B.V.

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2014

2020

2019

2015

Current release

0.5, April 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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