5-Lens Empirical Quadrants & Non-Dominated Pareto Frontier
All 17 Facets (15) agent_development_orchestration ai_security_and_guardrails automation_ipaas_dag_durable embeddings_and_rerankers evaluation_and_regression_testing llm_frontier_cloud llm_open_weights_cloud memory_behavior_policies multimodal_vision_audio_3d observability_tracing_monitoring programmatic_prompt_workflow_optimization protocols_mcp_and_a2a rag_context_pipeline slm_cpu_edge_quantized team_simulation_provenance timeseries_foundation_models vector_and_transactional_storage
| Component | Facet | Quadrant & Frontier | Lens Scores | Cliff & WAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TigerBeetle TigerBeetle |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER PARETO | Exec: 99 · Fit: 96 · Wave: 96.74 | Cliff: 98% · WAR: +0.33 |
| PostgreSQL + pgvector / pgvectorscale PostgreSQL / Timescale |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER PARETO | Exec: 97 · Fit: 95 · Wave: 96.04 | Cliff: 95% · WAR: +0.32 |
| DuckDB + VSS / Parquet DuckDB Labs |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 98 · Fit: 95 · Wave: 95.96 | Cliff: 95% · WAR: +0.32 |
| Qdrant Qdrant |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 96 · Fit: 95 · Wave: 95.48 | Cliff: 95% · WAR: +0.29 |
| LanceDB (Columnar Lance Format) LanceDB |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 96 · Fit: 95 · Wave: 95.16 | Cliff: 95% · WAR: +0.3 |
| sqlite-vec Alex Garcia |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 98 · Fit: 96 · Wave: 93.9 | Cliff: 96% · WAR: +0.27 |
| Weaviate Weaviate |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 93 · Fit: 93 · Wave: 93.44 | Cliff: 93% · WAR: +0.24 |
| Milvus Zilliz / LF AI |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 91 · Fit: 93 · Wave: 92.92 | Cliff: 91% · WAR: +0.23 |
| Elasticsearch Vector & BM25 Elastic |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 94 · Fit: 94 · Wave: 92.04 | Cliff: 93% · WAR: +0.26 |
| Redis / RediSearch Vector Redis |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 96 · Fit: 94 · Wave: 91.56 | Cliff: 93% · WAR: +0.25 |
| Neo4j Graph + Vector Neo4j |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 92 · Fit: 93 · Wave: 90.56 | Cliff: 91% · WAR: +0.24 |
| MongoDB Atlas Vector Search MongoDB |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 93 · Fit: 93 · Wave: 90.52 | Cliff: 93% · WAR: +0.21 |
| Chroma Chroma |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 90 · Fit: 92 · Wave: 90.08 | Cliff: 89% · WAR: +0.2 |
| Cloudflare D1 (Version-Fenced SQLite) Cloudflare |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 97 · Fit: 95 · Wave: 89.12 | Cliff: 95% · WAR: +0.3 |
| Pinecone Serverless Pinecone |
vector_and_transactional_storage |
EMPIRICAL_LEADER | Exec: 95 · Fit: 94 · Wave: 87.96 | Cliff: 93% · WAR: +0.23 |