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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Greenplum vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Weaviate

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefauna.comgreenplum.orgraima.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.raima.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Raima Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2014200519842019
Current release7.0.0, September 202315, June 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAndroid
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual 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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGreenplumRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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