DBMS > RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. Ultipa vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. Ultipa vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

typedb.com

www.ultipa.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

Ultipa

Weaviate B.V.

Yanza

Initial release

2013

2016

2019

2015

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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