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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. DolphinDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebolt vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmldocs.firebolt.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncEsgynFirebolt Analytics Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20142018201520202019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019v2.00.4, January 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAdministrators, Users, Groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
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Apache PhoenixDolphinDBEsgynDBFireboltWeaviate
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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