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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Aerospike vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score5.78
Rank#61  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comaerospike.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.aerospike.comdocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebook
Developer4D, IncAerospikeSTS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19842012201120172019
Current releasev20, April 20237.0, November 20234.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC#C++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes 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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92nonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
.NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infowith Luanoyesno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsnoACIDno
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlynoRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafSTSdbTigerGraphWeaviate
Specific characteristicsAerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesOptimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersNielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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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 modelsSubscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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