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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Badger vs. BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.An embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRDF storeKey-value storeKey-value storeSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsDGraph LabsElasticWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20002017201320102019
Current release4.9.0, July 20238.6, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoGoJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGoGo.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyes infovia event handlernonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsnoyesnono
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.nonoMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecuritynonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache Jena - TDBBadgerBoltDBElasticsearchWeaviate
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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