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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. PouchDB vs. Riak TS vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
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 DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webpouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iopouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynChris DavisApache Software FoundationOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152006201220152019
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.0.0, September 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaPythonJavaScriptErlangGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynonoyes 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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes, limitedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnonoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
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-standardnononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBGraphitePouchDBRiak TSWeaviate
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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