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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. HugeGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#278  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.datomic.comwww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datomic.comwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualshugegraph.apache.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CognitectPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyBaiduWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201220182019
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20220.91.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes 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 statementsnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peerspartitioning by range, list and by hashyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigObjectDatomicFujitsu Enterprise PostgresHugeGraphWeaviate
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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