DBMS > GBase vs. GraphDB vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. GraphDB vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.32
Rank	#91	Overall
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Social network pages

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Ontotext

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2004

2000

2015

2013

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

10.4, October 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.11.4, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

Security Hooks for custom implementations

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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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 models

GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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