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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Weaviate

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NameRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiterocksdb.orgwww.sadasengine.comwww.scylladb.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.scylladb.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.SADAS s.r.l.ScyllaDBSplice MachineWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132006201520142019
Current release8.11.4, April 20248.0ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20243.1, March 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Luayes infoJavano
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes infoin-memory tablesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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RocksDBSadas EngineScyllaDBSplice MachineWeaviate
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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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 modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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