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DBMS > Graphite vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Weaviate

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOracles in-memory data grid solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iomaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperChris DavisSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OracleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2006198420072019
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202414.1, August 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GraphiteMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOracle CoherenceWeaviate
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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