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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. JSqlDb vs. openGauss vs. Weaviate

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Mobiland AG

Konrad von Backstrom

Huawei and openGauss community

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2019

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.8, December 2018

3.0, March 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS
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)

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL 2011

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

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

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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 RocksDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles 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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