DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

McObject

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2001

2017

2014

2006

2019

Current release

8.2, 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

9.6.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by defining events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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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 models

For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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