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System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

origodb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Robert Friberg et al

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

can be achieved using .NET

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 query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

simple password-based access control

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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