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DBMS > Badger vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDGraph LabsTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017198720112019
Current releaseTransbase 8.3, 20227.x1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C#Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-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 SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.NetGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BadgerTransbaseVelocityDBWeaviate
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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