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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSAP, SybaseSTS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017198720112019
Current release16.04.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C#Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
.NET Client APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava and Transact-SQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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 controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
ObjectBoxSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASESTSdbWeaviate
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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