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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Weaviate

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store infowith version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#187  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwiki.blazegraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFranz Inc.BlazegraphEsgynLeanXcaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20042006201520152019
Current release8.0, December 20232.1.5, March 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes 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.no infobulk load of XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languageSPARQL is used as query languageyesyes infothrough Apache DerbyGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispyesJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AllegroGraphBlazegraphEsgynDBLeanXcaleWeaviate
Specific characteristicsKnowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesAllegroGraph 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 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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