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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsEsgynEmbarcaderoKineticaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122015198420122019
Current release29.0.1, April 2024InterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaCC, C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesyesyes, 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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache DruidEsgynDBInterbaseKineticaWeaviate
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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