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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Splice Machine vs. Weaviate

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.orgsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.org/­documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperExasolEmbarcaderoSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Splice MachineWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20001984200420142019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.1, March 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesyes infoJavano
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
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EXASOLInterbaseRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSplice MachineWeaviate
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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