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System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.OracleSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20022011201120182019
Current release1.1, February 201724.1, May 20244.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesno
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users and rolesnoRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GeodeOracle NoSQLSTSdbTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
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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