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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. FileMaker vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RRDtool vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  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.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleMicrosoftTobias OetikerWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20061983201519992019
Current release2.1.5, March 201919.4.1, November 2021V11.8.0, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes 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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes 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 languageyes infovia pluginsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
PHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes infousing Azure authenticationnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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