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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. Databend vs. jBASE vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. Databend vs. jBASE vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  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.An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comgithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.databend.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphDatabend LabsRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2006202119912019
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.0.59, April 20235.71.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaRustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Linux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptionalyes 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes 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 languageyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BlazegraphDatabendjBASEWeaviate
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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