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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.oracle.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

2011

1980

2013

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

23c, September 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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