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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Weaviate

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Konrad von Backstrom

Sybase, SAP

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2007

2018

1993

2019

Current release

8.7

0.8, December 2018

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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.

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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