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DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. Weaviate

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NameDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasetsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dolphindb.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2018199220232019
Current releasev2.00.4, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.0, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community version availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, Groupsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based access control and fine grained access rightsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DolphinDBMicrosoft AccessTranswarp HippoWeaviate
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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