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System Properties Comparison TerminusDB vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

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NameTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelGraph DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#285  Overall
#43  Document stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websiteterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.Yandex
Initial release201820192019
Current release11.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageProlog, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesGraph PartitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesJournaling StreamsyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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TerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviateYDB
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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