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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.43
Rank#265  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-servicewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputehive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slswww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaCloud Inc.AlibabaApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162016201220152019
Current release3.1.3, April 2022V11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin Javayes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes3 replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factoryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAlibaba Cloud user access controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Log ServiceAlibaba Cloud MaxComputeHiveMicrosoft Azure AI SearchWeaviate
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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All 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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