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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

terminusdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

CCRi and others

DataChemist Ltd.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

2018

2019

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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