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System Properties Comparison MarkLogic vs. Stardog vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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NameMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationdocs.stardog.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMarkLogic Corp.Stardog-UnionApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20012010201420112019
Current release11.0, December 20227.3.0, May 20202.3.0, February 20197.x1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesyes, 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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL92Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServeryesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NetGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesyes infovia event handlersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBasenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDACIDACIDno
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.yes, with Range Indexesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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MarkLogicStardogTrafodionVelocityDBWeaviate
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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