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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. RavenDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comravendb.netterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestravendb.net/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperHibernating RhinosDataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbHWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162010201819872019
Current release5.4, July 202211.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#Prolog, RustC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationJournaling StreamsSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBRavenDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTransbaseWeaviate
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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