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DBMS > Hive vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Weaviate

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NameHive  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Descriptiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score62.59
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookEmbarcaderoSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2012198420042019
Current release3.1.3, April 2022InterBase 2020, December 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.no infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInterbase Change Viewsnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HiveInterbaseRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameWeaviate
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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