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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Softmotions

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenNMS Group

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

1999

2014

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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 and Java

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

fine grained access rights 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

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