DBMS > ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx vs. Titan vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx vs. Titan vs. Weaviate

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

2010

2001

2012

2019

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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