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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Infobright vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.singlestore.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.SingleStore Inc.STS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19972005201320112019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20238.5, January 20244.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, GoC#Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.NET Client APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infohash partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoAPI Keys
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Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBInfobrightSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSTSdbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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