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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Netezza vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. BoltDB vs. Netezza vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.An embedded key-value store for Go.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphIBMWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20062013200020192015
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
GoC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnono
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BlazegraphBoltDBNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMWeaviateYanza
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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