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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. MaxDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbcloud.google.com/­bigtablemaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputewww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaAlibabaGoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201519842019
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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