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DBMS > EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. JaguarDB vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server vs. Weaviate

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Object-relational database and reports serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
RDF storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.jaguardb.comrdf4j.orgwww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperExasolDataJaguar, Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Paradigma SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20002015200419992019
Current release3.3 July 20235.7.51.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ODBCGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EXASOLJaguarDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameValentina ServerWeaviate
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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