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System Properties Comparison Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate

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NameSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitesplicemachine.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSplice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201420122019
Current release3.1, March 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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 SQLyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavanono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Splice MachineSQL.JSWeaviate
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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