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DBMS > SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sqrrl vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sqrrl vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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NameSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsqrrl.comtypedb.comvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheretypedb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSAP infoformerly SybaseAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.VaticleVelocityDB IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19922012201620112019
Current release17, July 20152.28.3, June 20247.x1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
.NetGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnononono
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopnoShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infomaking use of HadoopSynchronous replication via raftyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship featurenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)yes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressBased on Windows AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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SAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSqrrlTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVelocityDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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As 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 modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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