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Name

Description

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

Primary database model

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.voltdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

docs.voltdb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Rocket Software

VoltDB Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1993

1985

2010

2019

Current release

3.4-12

11.3, April 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

only a subset of SQL 99

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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