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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open Source Time Series DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
RDF storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrdf4j.orgsiridb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOracleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.CesbitWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142011200420172019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201924.1, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoRDF Schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes infoNumeric datayes 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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple rights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache PhoenixOracle NoSQLRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSiriDBWeaviate
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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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