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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Fauna vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Weaviate

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Fauna 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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeVector DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#72  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comfauna.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.fauna.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserdf4j.org/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperExasolFauna, Inc.EmbarcaderoSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20002014198420042019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaCJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes 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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationInterbase Change Viewsnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EXASOLFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBInterbaseRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameWeaviate
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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