DBMS > JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

8Kdata

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2014

2001

2016

2019

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

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

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

Source-replica 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
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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

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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