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DBMS > RDF4J vs. Solr vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison RDF4J vs. Solr vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl vs. Weaviate

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NameRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpatial extension of SQLiteAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRDF storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiterdf4j.orgsolr.apache.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqrrl.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationAlessandro FurieriAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20042006200820122019
Current release9.6.1, May 20245.0.0, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)server-lessLinux
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
PHP
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava pluginsnonono
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedoptimistic lockingACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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RDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSolrSpatiaLiteSqrrlWeaviate
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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