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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. EsgynDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.31
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.esgyn.cn

terminusdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Esgyn

DataChemist Ltd.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

2015

2018

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C++, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Journaling Streams

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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