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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Weaviate

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#96  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperExasolSAP, formerly SybaseWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2000201319942019
Current release2.7.5, January 202416.1 SPS04, April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
EXASOLInfluxDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQWeaviate
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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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 modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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