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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#303	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

origodb.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Hughes Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

1994

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

3.4-12

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

with some exceptions

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

none

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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