DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.esgyn.cn

www.sqlite.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Esgyn

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2004

2012

2015

2000

2019

Current release

8.0, December 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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