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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. Weaviate

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comphoenix.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsphoenix.apache.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationEsgynThomas MuellerWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19992014201520052019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.2.220, July 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++, JavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AltibaseApache PhoenixEsgynDBH2Weaviate
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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