DBMS > FeatureBase vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Rocket Software

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

1995

2007

1985

2019

Current release

2022, May 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

optionally

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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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