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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigchainDB vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.bigchaindb.comravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbHWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201019872019
Current release5.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#C and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AntDBBigchainDBRavenDBTransbaseWeaviate
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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