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System Properties Comparison Fauna vs. Greenplum vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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NameFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  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.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefauna.comgreenplum.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.fauna.comdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.RocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2014200520192019
Current release7.0.0, September 20231.19, 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 serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageScalaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesdynamic typingyes 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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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 controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Fauna infopreviously named FaunaDBGreenplumRocksetWeaviate
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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