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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Blueflood vs. RDFox vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning enginea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioblueflood.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.RackspaceOxford Semantic TechnologiesSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152013201720172019
Current release6.0, Septermber 20222022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrareplication via a shared file systemnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRoles, resources, and access typesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectBluefloodRDFoxSQream DBWeaviate
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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