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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. OpenQM vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud ApsaraDB for PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedMultivalue DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#278  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.00
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonBigObject, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201519932019
Current release3.4-121.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes, 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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoLuayesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Specific characteristicsApsaraDB for PolarDB is a cloud-native relational database 100% compatible with MySQL...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesWebinar: Top Scientists Live: Tech Secrets to Double 11's Success Revealed. White...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosCreating a Robust Cloud-Based Database for Fintech, E-Commerce and Gaming. Learn...
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As 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 modelsSpecification and pricing. You can use either of the following billing methods to...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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