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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iorethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualrethinkdb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SAP, SybaseSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102009198720182019
Current release2.4.1, August 202016.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++C and C++ScalaGo
Server operating systems.NETLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava and Transact-SQLnono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityRethinkDBSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESwayDBWeaviate
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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