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DBMS > MonetDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgsql.js.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMonetDB BVAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersMikio HirabayashiWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20042012202020192009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20230.9.3, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonono
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing specific database classesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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MonetDBSQL.JSTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetWeaviateYaacomo
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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