DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Kylin vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Apache Kylin vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
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Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

kylin.apache.org

pouchdb.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

kylin.apache.org/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2000

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

7.1.1, June 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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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