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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, 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 DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSnsdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSnsdb.io/­Architectureweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynKineticaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152012201420172019
Current release7.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen 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++, JavaC, C++JavaScriptJava, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes: 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 infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptJava
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.Using Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBKineticaLokiJSNSDbWeaviate
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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