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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Fauna vs. Kuzu vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-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.An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#380  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnfauna.comkuzudb.comwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.kuzudb.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynFauna, Inc.Splunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20152014202220032019
Current release0.4.2, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaScalaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-lessLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes, 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
Cypher Query Language
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
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 datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBKuzuSplunkWeaviate
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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