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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRDF storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score3.62
Rank#83  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2000198320172019
Current release4.9.0, July 202319.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes 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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaPHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes, in Luano
Triggersyes infovia event handleryesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB Transactionsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena Securitysimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache Jena - TDBFileMakerIRONdbWeaviate
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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