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DBMS > Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSAn 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
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.sequoiadb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.Mikio HirabayashiApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132020201420192009
Current release0.9.3, August 20202.3.0, February 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnoyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBaseyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBasenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataDocument is locked during a transactionACIDnoACID
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.noyes infousing specific database classesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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SequoiadbTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTrafodionWeaviateYaacomo
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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