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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Linter vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRDBMS for high security requirementsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orglinter.ruwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetrelex.ruOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Weaviate B.V.Yandex
Initial release20081990199820192019
Current release2.3.4, January 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLPL/SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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HBaseLinterTimesTenWeaviateYDB
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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