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DBMS > MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.openpie.comwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenPieSequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release200420132019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.1, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardsimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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MonetDBPieCloudDBSequoiadbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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All 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 modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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