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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score47.84
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgobjectbox.iowww.teradata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.teradata.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetObjectBox LimitedTeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2008201719842019
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HBaseObjectBoxTeradataWeaviate
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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