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DBMS > Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. Memgraph vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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 durabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn 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 DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.kinetica.commemgraph.comwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.kinetica.commemgraph.com/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCognitectKineticaMemgraph LtdSequoiadb Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20122012201720132019
Current release1.0.6735, June 20237.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen 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, ClojureC, C++C and C++C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.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 infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding 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 methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate 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 developmentyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers, roles and permissionssimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DatomicKineticaMemgraphSequoiadbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMemgraph 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 advantagesBusiness 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 scenariosGraph 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 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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