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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperInterSystemsSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release1997201820192015
Current release2018.1.4, May 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageScalaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
InterSystems CachéSwayDBWeaviateYanza
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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