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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. TiDB vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.graphengine.iopingcap.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stableweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynMicrosoftHypertable Inc.PingCAP, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20152010200920162019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20168.1.0, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen 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++, Java.NET and CC++Go, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor on file system levelUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6no
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHypertableTiDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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