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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. NSDb vs. RDFox vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnnsdb.iowww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oxfordsemantic.techweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynOxford Semantic TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20152017201720192009
Current release6.0, Septermber 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJava, ScalaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
Scala
C
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersreplication via a shared file systemyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EsgynDBNSDbRDFoxWeaviateYaacomo
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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