DBMS > Databend vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. JSqlDb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Elasticsearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. JSqlDb vs. Weaviate

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Name

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

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Databend Labs

Elastic

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2021

2010

2018

2019

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

8.6, January 2023

0.8, December 2018

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

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 search 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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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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