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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Ingres vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAllegroGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMSWell established RDBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScriptWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn 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
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.13
Rank#179  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
#7  RDF stores
#7  Vector DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteallegrograph.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingressql.js.orgwakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfranz.com/­agraph/­support/­documentation/­current/­agraph-introduction.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingressql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFranz Inc.Actian CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20041974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201220122019
Current release8.0, December 202311.2, May 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyesyesyes, 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 possibleno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes 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 languageyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavaScript or Common Lispyesnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeswith Federationhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatornonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AllegroGraphIngresSQL.JSWakandaDBWeaviate
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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