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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes

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 data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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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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