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System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Weaviate

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NameLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.leanxcale.commemgraph.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperLeanXcaleMemgraph LtdHughes TechnologiesPinecone Systems, IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152017199420192019
Current release4.4, October 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes 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 indexesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough Apache DerbynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
PythonJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionsnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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LeanXcaleMemgraphmSQL infoMini SQLPineconeWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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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 metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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