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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graph Engine vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncMicrosoftHEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19842010201620022019
Current releasev20, April 20235.10, January 20224.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation language.NET and CC++ and CUDAJavaGo
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
.NETLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InfinityDBWeaviate
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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