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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Netezza vs. OrigoDB vs. VoltDB vs. Weaviate

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memoryAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaorigodb.comwww.voltdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationorigodb.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesIBMRobert Friberg et alVoltDB Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release199420002009 infounder the name LiveDB20102019
Current release4.4, October 202111.3, April 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro EditionsOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#Java, C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes 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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesJavano
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supportedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored proceduresno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoSnapshots and command loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole based authorizationUsers and roles with access to stored proceduresAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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mSQL infoMini SQLNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMOrigoDBVoltDBWeaviate
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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