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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. IRONdb vs. Teradata Aster vs. Weaviate vs. YugabyteDB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatedocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperEsgynCirconus LLC.TeradataWeaviate B.V.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release20152017200520192017
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.19, May 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++GoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes, maps to GraphQL interfacedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesGraphQL is used as query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes, in LuaR packagesnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
yes
More information provided by the system vendor
EsgynDBIRONdbTeradata AsterWeaviateYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB 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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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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