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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. Databricks vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Databricks vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Weaviate

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.databricks.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.databricks.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsDatabricksEsgynWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2018201320152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2019
Current release2.3, January 202110 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.with Databricks SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusteryesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Weaviate 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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