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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. EsgynDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionWidely used in-process key-value storeScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.esgyn.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDGraph LabsEsgynOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20172015199420182019
Current release18.1.40, May 202011.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++, JavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes 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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BadgerEsgynDBOracle Berkeley DBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
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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