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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. VoltDB vs. Weaviate

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.jaguardb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.voltdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.voltdb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperExasolDataJaguar, Inc.SAP, formerly SybaseVoltDB Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20002015199420102019
Current release3.3 July 202316.1 SPS04, April 201911.3, April 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJava, C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesJavano
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EXASOLJaguarDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQVoltDBWeaviate
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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