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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Fauna vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#155  Overall
#28  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#70  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Score2.00
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnfauna.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynFauna, Inc.OracleDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20152014200720182019
Current release14.1, August 202311.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaScalaJavaProlog, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnonoyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelJournaling Streamsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardIdentity management, authentication, and access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBOracle CoherenceTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviate
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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