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System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.sequoiadb.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2013201220192009
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnono
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataDocument is locked during a transactionACIDnoACID
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
SequoiadbSQL.JSWeaviateYaacomo
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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