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System Properties Comparison Oracle NoSQL vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV vs. Weaviate

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NameOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracleOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2011201720092019
Current release24.1, May 20246.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoRDF schemasschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesnoyes 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 indexesyesrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurereplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cacheyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak SecurityAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Oracle NoSQLRDFoxRiak KVWeaviate
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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