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

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  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 systemIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA 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 store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
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/­openedgewww.tarantool.iowww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSymasProgress Software CorporationVKWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20111984200820172019
Current release0.9.32, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.10.0, May 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes 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 92Full-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Open binary protocolGSQL (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)C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyesno
Triggersnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Role-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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LMDBOpenEdgeTarantoolTigerGraphWeaviate
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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