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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.19
Rank#176  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqliotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20182019
Current release1.1.0, April 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLApache IoTDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTPC Benchmark: The world leading result in TPC-DS benchmark . TPC-H benchmark for...
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Flexible 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 modelsAvailable regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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