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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.progress.com/­openedgerealm.iowww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrealm.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSymasProgress Software CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20111984201420172019
Current release0.9.32, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsyesRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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LMDBOpenEdgeRealmTigerGraphWeaviate
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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