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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Axibase vs. RDF4J vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#112	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

rdf4j.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

rdf4j.org/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1999

2017

2013

2004

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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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