DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Apache Drill vs. Elasticsearch vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

drill.apache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2013

2019

Current release

2.1, December 2018

1.20.3, January 2023

8.6, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

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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