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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. etcd vs. ITTIA vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA distributed reliable key-value storeEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.ittia.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEsgynITTIA L.L.C.Weaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2015200720192019
Current release3.4, August 20198.71.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaGoC and C++GoClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDatabase file passwordsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
EsgynDBetcdITTIAWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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