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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. GBase vs. NuoDB vs. Realm vs. Weaviate

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.gbase.cnwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaserealm.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdoc.nuodb.comrealm.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDGraph LabsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20172004201320142019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, PythonC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC#.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava, SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BadgerGBaseNuoDBRealmWeaviate
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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