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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

www.jaguardb.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Esgyn

DataJaguar, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2020

2019

Current release

3.3 July 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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