DBMS > HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
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Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2001

1994

2014

2012

2019

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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