DBMS > Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.snowflake.com

splicemachine.com

wakanda.github.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splice Machine

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1989

2014

2012

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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