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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SAP IQ vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SAP IQ vs. Weaviate

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storekyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBMKyligence, Inc.SAP, formerly SybaseWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20042017201619942019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.016.1 SPS04, April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GBaseIBM Db2 Event StoreKyligence EnterpriseSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQWeaviate
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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