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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, Sybase8KdataSenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20101987201620152019
Current release16.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava and Transact-SQLyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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IBM CloudantSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASEToroDBWarp 10Weaviate
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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