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DBMS > dBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

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DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequasar.aigithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedoc.quasar.ai/­masterweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAsthon TateOraclequasardbWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1979200720092019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 201914.1, August 20233.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes 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 indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDE.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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