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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ehcache vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Weaviate

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSAn 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
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFranz Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGEsgynMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20042009201519892019
Current release8.0, December 20233.10.0, March 2022SQL Server 2022, November 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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 possiblenonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes 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 languagenoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common LispnoJava Stored ProceduresTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith FederationSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes
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 configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AllegroGraphEhcacheEsgynDBMicrosoft SQL ServerWeaviate
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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