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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. mSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.esgyn.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Esgyn

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

1994

2011

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

23.3, December 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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

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