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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebolt vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebolt vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.In-memory caching systemHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comcachelot.iowww.firebolt.iopouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.firebolt.iopouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20062015202020122019
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesnoyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Memcached protocol.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BlazegraphCachelot.ioFireboltPouchDBWeaviate
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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