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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. MarkLogic vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Weaviate

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.marklogic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMarkLogic Corp.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2000200119842019
Current release15.5, September 202011.0, December 20227.4.1.1, 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infoSQL92yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, with Range Indexesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GigaSpacesMarkLogicOracle RdbWeaviate
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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