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System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. Infobright vs. OceanBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdben.oceanbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBaiduIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2018200520102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release0.94.3.0, April 202410 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, 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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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HugeGraphInfobrightOceanBasePostgres-XLWeaviate
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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