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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Geode vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

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Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

geode.apache.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Esgyn

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Transwarp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2002

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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