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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

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

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.teradata.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.teradata.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Franz Inc.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

Teradata

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2004

1980

1984

2019

Current release

8.0, December 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

23c, September 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

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

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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