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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cngeode.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswiki.blazegraph.comgeode.apache.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphEsgynOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20192006201520022019
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.1, February 20171.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesSQL-like query language (OQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definableAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon DocumentDBBlazegraphEsgynDBGeodeWeaviate
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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