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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. TigerGraph vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-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.Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comwww.tigergraph.comvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.comvitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextTeradataThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20002005201720132019
Current release10.4, October 202315.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++GoGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityR packagesyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDefault 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.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMTeradata AsterTigerGraphVitessWeaviate
Specific characteristicsOntotext 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 advantagesGraphDB 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 scenariosMetadata 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 metricsGraphDB 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 modelsGraphDB 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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