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DBMS > Badger vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. SWC-DB vs. Titan vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDGraph LabsAlex KashirinAurelius, owned by DataStaxTransaction Software GmbHWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20172020201219872019
Current release0.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC++Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backendsSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BadgerSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTitanTransbaseWeaviate
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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