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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Dolt vs. EsgynDB vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score5.96
Rank#63  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.98
Rank#203  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score2.00
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.esgyn.cnwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.dolthub.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDoltHub IncEsgynSnowflake Computing Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19972018201520142019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes, 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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
HTTP REST
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBDoltEsgynDBSnowflakeWeaviate
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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