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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkSpatial extension of SQLitePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
RDF storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsAlessandro FurieriTeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122000200820052019
Current release29.0.1, April 20244.9.0, July 20235.0.0, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyes infoRDF SchemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes, 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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Fuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoR packagesno
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACIDno
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemAccess control via Jena Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DruidApache Jena - TDBSpatiaLiteTeradata AsterWeaviate
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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