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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Hive vs. KairosDB vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
hive.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homekairosdb.github.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20082012201320142019
Current release11.0, January 20213.1.3, April 20221.2.2, November 20182.3.0, February 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaJavaJavaC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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CubridHiveKairosDBTrafodionWeaviate
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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