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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. FatDB vs. LokiJS vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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.In-memory JavaScript DBMSa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.91
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaFatCloudSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201420172019
Current release2022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedWindowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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 infovia viewsnoyes 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 ServernoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JavaScript API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
C#JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infovia applicationsView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factornonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
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 applicationsnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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