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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FatDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudGigaspaces TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201220002019
Current release15.5, September 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC#Java, C++, .NetGo
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-99 for query and DML statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsyesno
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLFatDBGigaSpacesWeaviate
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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