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DBMS > EJDB vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Access vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Access vs. Weaviate

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopMicrosoft 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.)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhive.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201219922019
Current release3.1.3, April 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes 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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EJDBHiveMicrosoft AccessWeaviate
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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