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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. EsgynDB vs. Lovefield vs. RethinkDB vs. Weaviate

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.30
Rank#287  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.esgyn.cngoogle.github.io/­lovefieldrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdrethinkdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDatabend LabsEsgynGoogleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20212015201420092019
Current release1.0.59, April 20232.1.12, February 20172.4.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustC++, JavaJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DatabendEsgynDBLovefieldRethinkDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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