DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.47
Rank	#263	Overall
	#18	Search engines

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/sls

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

AlibabaCloud Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Yandex

Initial release

2016

2013

2019

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

GraphQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

3 replicas

none

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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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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