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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

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NameKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score9.85
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.vertica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationvertica.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardWeaviate B.V.
Initial release199920052019
Current releaseV8.0, August 202112.0.3, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageC and JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
Triggersyesyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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KingbaseVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Weaviate
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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