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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. JanusGraph vs. Qdrant vs. TimesTen vs. Weaviate

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusQdrantOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20042017202119982019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c0.6.3, February 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJavaRustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnonoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesPL/SQLno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GBaseJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanQdrantTimesTenWeaviate
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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