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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbmanticoresearch.comtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbmanual.manticoresearch.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynFoundationDBManticore SoftwareApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152013201720142019
Current release6.2.28, November 20206.0, February 20232.3.0, February 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC++C++C++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasFixed schemayesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes 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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query languageyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBFoundationDBManticore SearchTrafodionWeaviate
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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