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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. ClickHouse vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.17
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	15.88
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

clickhouse.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

clickhouse.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Cambridge Semantics

Clickhouse Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2018

2016

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

2.3, January 2021

v24.6.2.17-stable, July 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

depending on used data model

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Automatic sharding

key based and custom

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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