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System Properties Comparison Apache Jena - TDB vs. Milvus vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRDF storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlmilvus.iosiridb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationjena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.siridb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsCesbitWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20002019201720192009
Current release4.9.0, July 20232.3.4, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, GoCGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoNumeric datayes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsFuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia event handlernononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoTDB TransactionsnononoACID
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess control via Jena SecurityRole based access control and fine grained access rightssimple rights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Apache Jena - TDBMilvusSiriDBWeaviateYaacomo
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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