DBMS > HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

splicemachine.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Splice Machine

TempoIQ

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

1989

2014

2012

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-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

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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