DBMS > EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. OushuDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. OushuDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.oushu.com/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Exasol

Google

Oushu

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2000

2010

2019

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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