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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Stardog vs. TinkerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.stardog.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.stardog.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCognitectStardog-UnionWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201020092019
Current release1.0.7075, December 20237.3.0, May 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen 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 languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServernoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
TinkerPop 3GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusternoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesoptionalyes
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 developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DatomicStardogTinkerGraphWeaviate
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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