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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Quasardb vs. Solr vs. Weaviate

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgequasar.aisolr.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.FairCom CorporationquasardbApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20161979200920062019
Current release2.1, December 2018V3, October 20203.14.1, January 20249.6.0, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCANSI C, C++C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemedepending on used data modelFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes 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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noJava pluginsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AgensGraphFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEQuasardbSolrWeaviate
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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