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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Weaviate B.V.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

2020

2019

2001

Current release

3.3 July 2023

0.5, April 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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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

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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