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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph vs. Valentina Server vs. Weaviate

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NameAerospike infopreviously called Citrusleaf  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFlash-optimized In-memory NoSQL DatabaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIObject-relational database and reports serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS infoleveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.10
Rank#59  Overall
#11  Document stores
#3  Graph DBMS
#7  Key-value stores
#2  Spatial DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websiteaerospike.comwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aerospike.comdocs.tigergraph.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTube
DeveloperAerospikeParadigma SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122017200919992019
Current release7.0, November 20235.7.51.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen 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++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)noyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3ODBCGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infowith Luayesnoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoAerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduceyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptionalyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles infowith Enterprise Edition onlyRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Aerospike infopreviously called CitrusleafTigerGraphTinkerGraphValentina ServerWeaviate
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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