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System Properties Comparison Teradata vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. Weaviate

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NameTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasetsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score41.47
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.teradata.comterminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.teradata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperTeradataDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release1984201820232019
Current releaseTeradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 201911.0.0, January 20231.0, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustC++Go
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoHashingGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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TeradataTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTranswarp HippoWeaviate
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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