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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. NSDb vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. NSDb vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cnnsdb.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedoc.quasar.ai/­masterweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphEsgynquasardbWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20062015201720092019
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJava, ScalaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infointeger and binaryyes 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 indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsyes 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 languageyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BlazegraphEsgynDBNSDbQuasardbWeaviate
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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