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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. SpatiaLite vs. Stardog vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataSpatial extension of SQLiteEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.stardog.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsAlessandro FurieriStardog-UnionSTS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122008201020112019
Current release29.0.1, April 20245.0.0, August 20207.3.0, May 20204.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServernoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
.NET Client APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
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.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAPI Keys
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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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