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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. Weaviate

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

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  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 HadoopAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column storeVector DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynMicrosoftHypertable Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201020092019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, Java.NET and CC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
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
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor on file system levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHypertableWeaviate
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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