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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. SAP IQ vs. Weaviate

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteatoti.iowww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iodocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperActiveViamGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogleSAP, formerly SybaseWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2000201719942019
Current release15.5, September 202016.1 SPS04, April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonyesnoyesno
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.SAP/Sybase Replication Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infousing Google Cloud DataflowHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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atotiGigaSpacesGoogle Cloud SpannerSAP 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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