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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Apache Pinot vs. EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.pinot.apache.orgapple.github.io/­foundationdbweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsEsgynFoundationDBWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142015201520132019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.0, September 20236.2.28, November 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno infosome layers support 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache PhoenixApache PinotEsgynDBFoundationDBWeaviate
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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