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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSnsdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSnsdb.io/­Architectureweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynCCRi and othersWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152014201420172019
Current release4.0.5, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaScalaJavaScriptJava, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScriptJava
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersdepending on storage layernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.Using Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBGeoMesaLokiJSNSDbWeaviate
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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