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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRDF storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrdf4j.orgwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20162013200420132019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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 SQLnononoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoJava
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonosimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBBoltDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSequoiadbWeaviate
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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