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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. JanusGraph vs. KeyDB vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
nsdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.keydb.devnsdb.io/­Architectureweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20152017201920172019
Current release0.6.3, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaC++Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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 indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocogRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresyesLuanono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsUsing Apache Luceneyes
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-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access control and ACLAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanKeyDBNSDbWeaviate
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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