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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Tkrzw vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

manticoresearch.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Esgyn

Manticore Software

Mikio Hirabayashi

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2017

2020

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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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

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Licensing and pricing models

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