DBMS > HugeGraph vs. MariaDB vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. MariaDB vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#339	Overall
	#33	Graph DBMS

Score	93.81
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

nsdb.io

wakanda.github.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

nsdb.io/Architecture

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Baidu

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

2012

2019

Current release

0.9

11.3.2, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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