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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.56
Rank#106  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#351  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.timescale.comwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.timescale.comwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperThomas MuellerSAP, formerly SybaseTimescaleSenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20051994201720152019
Current release2.2.220, July 202316.1 SPS04, April 20192.15.0, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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H2SAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTimescaleDBWarp 10Weaviate
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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