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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Kingbase vs. QuestDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonApache Jena - TDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena frameworkAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn 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 tablesRDF storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.75
Rank#84  Overall
#3  RDF stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlwww.kingbase.com.cnquestdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputejena.apache.org/­documentation/­tdb/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaApache Software Foundation infooriginally developed by HP LabsBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.QuestDB Technology IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162000199920142019
Current release4.9.0, July 2023V8.0, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Fuseki infoREST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia event handleryesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoTDB TransactionsACIDACID for single-table writesno
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess control via Jena Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeApache Jena - TDBKingbaseQuestDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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 modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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