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DBMS > MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate

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NameMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OracleOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1984201120152019
Current release7.9.10.12, February 202424.1, May 20243.0.0, September 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, limitedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nono
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.noyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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MaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOracle NoSQLRiak TSWeaviate
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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