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DBMS > Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. GeoMesa vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

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NameBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteblazegraph.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwiki.blazegraph.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBlazegraphCCRi and othersDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2006201420032019
Current release2.1.5, March 20195.0.1, July 20241.6.29, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes 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.nono
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 languagenonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocolGraphQL 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
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layernone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
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 configurationdepending on storage layerEventual 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 datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAPI 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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