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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Riak TS vs. searchxml vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201520152019
Current release3.0.0, September 20221.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaErlangC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, limitednoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresErlangyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between datasets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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EsgynDBRiak TSsearchxmlWeaviate
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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