DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.enterprisedb.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Hyprcubd, Inc.

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2005

2010

2012

2019

Current release

14, December 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

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

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

yes

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

Eventual 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

token access

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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