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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EsgynDB vs. Fauna vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Analytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.esgyn.cnfauna.comwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.fauna.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDatabricksEsgynFauna, Inc.Splunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132015201420032019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DatabricksEsgynDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBSplunkWeaviate
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Weaviate 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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