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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. Weaviate

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NameSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score32.01
Rank#24  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#115  Overall
#10  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanaweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSAPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20102019
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemsAppliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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 indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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