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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2011

2006

2019

Current release

1.2, November 2023

23.3, December 2023

8.0

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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