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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.esgyn.cn

www.eventstore.com

nsdb.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Esgyn

Event Store Limited

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

2017

2019

Current release

15585

21.2, February 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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