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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hyprcubd vs. MaxDB vs. Tarantool vs. Weaviate

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Serverless Time Series DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orghyprcubd.com (offline)maxdb.sap.comwww.tarantool.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997VKWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2005198420082019
Current release7.0.0, September 20237.9.10.12, February 20242.10.0, May 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes 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.yes infosince Version 4.2nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Open binary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresno
Triggersyesnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GreenplumHyprcubdMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DTarantoolWeaviate
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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