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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Cachelot.io vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A 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.

In-memory caching system

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

cachelot.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

A real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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Competitive advantages

TPC 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 scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available 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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