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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. EsgynDB vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnmaxdb.sap.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationEsgynSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Simer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20142015198420182019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20197.9.10.12, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaC++ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes 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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
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.yesnonoyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Apache PhoenixEsgynDBMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DSwayDBWeaviate
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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