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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#311  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score3.58
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score118.16
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.00
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynSAP, formerly SybaseDwayne Richard HippWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015199420002019
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20193.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSAP/Sybase Replication Servernoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
EsgynDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSQLiteWeaviate
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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