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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.teradata.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesTeradataWeaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release1994198420192019
Current release4.4, October 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGoClojure
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Linux
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoHashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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mSQL infoMini SQLTeradataWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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