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DBMS > BaseX vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. Weaviate

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
nsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orghugegraph.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBaseX GmbHBaiduApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20072018201720142019
Current release10.7, August 20230.93.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open 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 languageJavaJavaJava, ScalaScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes 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 indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexednoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers, roles and permissionsnoAPI Keys
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BaseXHugeGraphNSDbSpark SQLWeaviate
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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