DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > EsgynDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Weaviate

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereterminusdb.comwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.timescale.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynSiteWhereDataChemist Ltd.TimescaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152010201820172019
Current release11.0.0, January 20232.13.0, November 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++, JavaJavaProlog, RustCGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
EsgynDBSiteWhereTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTimescaleDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
» more
Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
» more
Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
» more
Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
» more
Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
EsgynDBSiteWhereTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTimescaleDBWeaviate
DB-Engines blog posts

Weaviate, an ANN Database with CRUD support
2 February 2021,  Etienne Dilocker, SeMI Technologies (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

provided by Google News

How TerminusDB is commercializing its open source graph database
16 March 2021, VentureBeat

TerminusDB Takes on Data Collaboration with a git-Like Approach
1 December 2020, The New Stack

Dublin-based data collaboration tool TerminusDB raises €3.6 million in seed round
15 March 2021, Tech.eu

Trinity College spinout TerminusDB secures €3.6m in investment
15 March 2021, The Irish Times

[MCR2030-CAMS-ARISE-UNDRR Webinar] Preventing cascading failures of critical assets: Using the Open-Source ...
12 April 2022, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

provided by Google News

TimescaleDB Is a Vector Database Now, Too
25 September 2023, Datanami

Timescale Acquires PopSQL to Bring a Modern, Collaborative SQL GUI to PostgreSQL Developers
4 April 2024, PR Newswire

Power IoT and time-series workloads with TimescaleDB for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
18 March 2019, Microsoft

Timescale Valuation Rockets to Over $1B with $110M Round, Marking the Explosive Rise of Time-Series Data
22 February 2022, Business Wire

Visualizing IoT Data at Scale With Hopara and TimescaleDB
16 May 2023, Embedded Computing Design

provided by Google News

Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector ...
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

Weaviate Partners with Snowflake to Bring Secure GenAI to Snowpark Container Services
8 February 2024, Datanami

Getting Started with Weaviate: A Beginner's Guide to Search with Vector Databases
18 July 2023, Towards Data Science

Weaviate Raises $50 Million Series B Funding to Meet Soaring Demand for AI Native Vector Database Technology ...
21 April 2023, PR Newswire

The 5 Best Vector Databases You Must Try in 2024
17 November 2023, KDnuggets

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here