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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. MarkLogic vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Graph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgwww.marklogic.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.marklogic.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsMarkLogic Corp.DataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19992012200120182019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 202411.0, December 202211.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes, 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AltibaseApache DruidMarkLogicTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible 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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