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DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. NuoDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Access vs. mSQL vs. NuoDB vs. Weaviate

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitehazelcast.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesshughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdoc.nuodb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHazelcastMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20081992199420132019
Current release5.3.6, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20194.4, October 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoJava, SQLno
Triggersyes infoEventsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoReplicated Mapnonenoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HazelcastMicrosoft AccessmSQL infoMini SQLNuoDBWeaviate
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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