DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2000

2019

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes

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

restricted

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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