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System Properties Comparison OpenEdge vs. Weaviate vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Weaviate B.V.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1984

2019

2001

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

GraphQL is used as query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users and groups

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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