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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Greenplum vs. MaxDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
greenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsPivotal Software Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20162023200519842019
Current release1.0, March 20237.0.0, September 20237.9.10.12, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes 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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyesno
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBDragonflyGreenplumMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DWeaviate
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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