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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsql.js.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release1992201220192015
Current release17, July 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnonono
Triggersyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
SAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSQL.JSWeaviateYanza
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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