DBMS > Ingres vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Kdb vs. Snowflake vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

kx.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

code.kx.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Actian Corporation

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2014

2019

Current release

11.2, May 2022

3.6, May 2018

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free 32-bit version

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

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

rights management via user accounts

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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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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