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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsiridb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.siridb.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleSAP infoformerly SybaseCesbitWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017199220172019
Current release17, July 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes 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.yesnoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLGoogle Cloud FirestoreSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSiriDBWeaviate
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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