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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  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 TrafodionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseAn 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 DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, IncWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20151984201920192009
Current release7.4.1.1, 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxHP Open VMShostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetPythonJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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EsgynDBOracle RdbPineconeWeaviateYaacomo
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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