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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. Stardog vs. Weaviate

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgmanticoresearch.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.stardog.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.stardog.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffManticore SoftwareOpenNMS GroupStardog-UnionWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142017201420102019
Current release6.0, February 20237.3.0, May 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes 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.noCan index from XMLnono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languagenoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
Java API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersyesnonoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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