DBMS > DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. Infobright vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. Infobright vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Weaviate

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Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.esgyn.cn

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Mobiland AG

Esgyn

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Percona

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2015

2005

2008

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2

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

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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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