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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sadasengine.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifySADAS s.r.l.DataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20162014200620182019
Current release8.011.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBHeroicSadas EngineTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
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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