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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201120132019
Current release24.1, May 202415.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Oracle NoSQLVitessWeaviate
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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