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

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Social network pages

Developer

Arcade Data

Trino Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2021

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

2012

2019

Current release

September 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

depending on connected data-source

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, depending on connected data-source

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on connected data-source

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

depending on connected data-source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

SQL standard access control

yes

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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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 models

Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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