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DBMS > BigObject vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. JanusGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iojanusgraph.orgwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.janusgraph.orgwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMonetDB BVWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20152017200420192009
Current release0.6.3, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGo
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
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigObjectJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanMonetDBWeaviateYaacomo
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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