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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Manticore Search vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iomanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncDgraph Labs, Inc.Manticore SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152016201620172019
Current release3.1.0, July 20206.0, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonGoC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes 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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache KylinBigchainDBDgraphManticore SearchWeaviate
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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