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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comnsdb.ioobjectbox.iowakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.objectbox.iowakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperArcade DataObjectBox LimitedWakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20212017201720122019
Current releaseSeptember 20212.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC and C++C++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query languagenonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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ArcadeDBNSDbObjectBoxWakandaDBWeaviate
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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