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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjsqldb.org (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynChris DavisKonrad von BackstromMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152006201820152019
Current release0.8, December 2018V11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, JavaPythonGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyesyes 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 indexesyesnonoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnonenoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
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-standardnoyes infousing Azure authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
EsgynDBGraphiteJSqlDbMicrosoft Azure AI SearchWeaviate
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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