DBMS > Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.vertica.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

vertica.com/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Kinetica

SAP

formerly Sybase

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2010

1992

2005

2019

Current release

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

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

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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