DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/hana

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Hazelcast

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

1999

2010

2019

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

V8.0, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

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

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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