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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financeopennms.github.io/­newtsrdf4j.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationOpenNMS GroupSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132014200420092019
Current release155851.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes 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 indexesnonoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaJava
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as welloptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseNewtsRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTinkerGraphWeaviate
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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