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System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. TiDB vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSAn 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 modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitespark.apache.org/­sqlpingcap.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stablewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationPingCAP, Inc.Transaction Software GmbHWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20142016198720192009
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20238.1.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaGo, RustC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal partitioning (by key range)Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infowith TiSpark Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infofull support since version 6.6yesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesnoACID
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Spark SQLTiDBTransbaseWeaviateYaacomo
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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