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System Properties Comparison JanusGraph vs. TigerGraph vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Weaviate

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NameJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMSGraph DBMSMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgwww.tigergraph.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatagithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.tigergraph.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidataweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusRocket SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017201719852019
Current release0.6.3, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
C++
Java
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoU2 Basicno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerRole-based access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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JanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanTigerGraphUniData,UniVerseWeaviate
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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