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System Properties Comparison jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate

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NamejBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.comwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.comdocs.teradata.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)KineticaTeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1991201219842019
Current release5.77.1, August 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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jBASEKineticaTeradataWeaviate
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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