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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EsgynDB vs. QuestDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 TrafodionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.esgyn.cnquestdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comquestdb.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphEsgynQuestDB Technology IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2006201520142019
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesnoyes 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 with time-series extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID for single-table writesno
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BlazegraphEsgynDBQuestDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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All 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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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