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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Fauna vs. RDF4J vs. Weaviate

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
RDF storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputefauna.comrdf4j.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.fauna.comrdf4j.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaFauna, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20162016201420042019
Current release2.1, December 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCScalaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AgensGraphAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameWeaviate
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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