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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate vs. YugabyteDB

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
Wide column store
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatedocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, SybaseWeaviate B.V.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20101987200920192017
Current release16.01.19, May 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++JavaGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfacedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava and Transact-SQLnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnonoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptionalyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
yes
More information provided by the system vendor
IBM CloudantSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASETinkerGraphWeaviateYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB 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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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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