DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Weaviate

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2012

2008

2019

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (GQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Alibaba Cloud user access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

A 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 metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Pay-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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