DBMS > Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Embarcadero

Kinetica

SAP

ByteDance, originally Terark

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1984

2012

2010

2016

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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