DBMS > searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison searchxml vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Simer Plaha

Weaviate B.V.

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2014

2018

2019

2015

Current release

1.0

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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