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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. JSqlDb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. JSqlDb vs. Weaviate

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.comjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFoundationDBPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyKonrad von BackstromWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320182019
Current release6.2.28, November 2020Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20220.8, December 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingyesnoyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsfunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingpartitioning by range, list and by hashnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FoundationDBFujitsu Enterprise PostgresJSqlDbWeaviate
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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As 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 metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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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 modelsCore based licensing
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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