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System Properties Comparison OceanBase vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Weaviate

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NameOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteen.oceanbase.comravendb.netwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databaseravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupHibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSybase, SAPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102010200919932019
Current release4.3.0, April 20245.4, July 20223.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (RQL)noyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyesErlangyesno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)ShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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OceanBaseRavenDBRiak KVSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSWeaviate
Specific characteristicsOceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Flexible 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 customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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