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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Kdb vs. Memgraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comkx.commemgraph.comwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcode.kx.commemgraph.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCognitectKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMemgraph LtdSequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20122000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201720132019
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.6, May 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureqC and C++C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsJavaScriptno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolationDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsUsers, roles and permissionssimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DatomicKdbMemgraphSequoiadbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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